This is an analysis of the poem Salling that begins with:
en Skjæmtevise.
Musen sad ved dine Strande,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXX bXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXbXXXXX aaabXXXX XXXXXbXX aXXXXXXX cXcXXXXX XdXdcXXX XXXXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 101111 11111 111111 11111 11101 110100 1011101 11101 1111110 11111 1111110 1111 011111 111111 10111 1111 100011 1111 1011101 11101 1011111 1010111 11111 11010 11111110 1111 11101110 11111 111100110 1111110 11111110 111100 101111 10111 1011111 1101 10111110 1101000 11100010 111010 1001111 1110 101110 10011 10101010 1010110 10111000 111110 10111 10111 1111 01101 1011101 1110111 1011101 100010 11110 1111 111110 1100 100100 111101 1010110 101000 1111110 1111 10101100 11101 1111110 11011 1010111111 1111 1011111 1111 1110111 1010 111111 111011 111011 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mig, og, er, dets, lad, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, lad are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, kke, rke, je are repeated).
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- summary of Salling;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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