This is an analysis of the poem Proletar-Borgmesteren that begins with:

Hvad skal de Fakler ved Raadhusets Port?
er der undladt, og hvad er der gjort?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaa bXXX XXaX XbXX XXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011001 011011011 11010100 10011011 10111110111 11011101101 11110011 111111011 1011101 1111111 1111000111101 111101011101 1111010110111 10110111011 11110010110 11110111111 10101111111 1100010110100 1111110110110 11011011111 1111101111 1111111101 1111111111 11011101101 110111110111 11001111110 11111111111 101111111101 1100000110111 111010110101 1111100110001 0101100101111 010101111100 1101101100111 110001111000 11011111101 110111110111 11110101100101 110110111000 1111010110111 11111111011 110101011101 11111011011 1011110111111 1111100111 1111111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er, han, de, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, han, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word den at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, nd, d are repeated).

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  • summary of Proletar-Borgmesteren;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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