This is an analysis of the poem Søndag I Morgen that begins with:

En Aften paa Engen sa' Jakob til Svend:
„Godnat mine blankslidte Knage...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX aXXXXXb XXXXXXB aXXbbbB XbXXXXb XXcbXXb XXXXccb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011011011 101101 0111011101 1010110 11111011001 1101111101 111111100 01101011011 111011 101010110 111110 0111111011 11111011011 0111110 111101101 1100101 11011011011 1100101 11011101 110111011 1011110 1011001101 111111010 1101111111 110110110 1101111001 110111011 1011110 1101110111 110111010 111111001 11111110 110111001 110111101 11001110 0101111010 1111110 110101101 110110110 010111101 1110100111 11111110 1001111010 11011010 1111111011 01110110 11011011111 11101011011 11011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, og, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word morgen at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Søndag I Morgen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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