This is an analysis of the poem Slaakarle that begins with:
Vil I se paa Karle, som kan slaa?
som kan gaa et Skaar og ta' en Skraa,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXaaXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX bXXXbccX XdXXdXXX XXXXXXXX eXXXeXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111 111111111 11111 11101 11111101111 00100 00111 00111010101 1011111 101011111 1110 111110 1110110011101 10111 111110 111111111 10101111 11101100 10110 11111 101000111 1111 111 101111110100 10110111 011011101 00110 111110 11110111101 1111 11101 111110011011 10111011 111111100 10101 1011 11011001101 10111 10111 11111010011 011001100 101011111 011010 111010 111111010 100111 10101 111101011 111111101 10100110 100110 111100 11111001011 1011 1011 10111001110 10110111 1011011 10101 10100 111010001111 11100 10111 1101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; kan, som, her, er, og, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, her, og are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines g, gild, r are repeated).
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- summary of Slaakarle;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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