This is an analysis of the poem Ved Engsøen that begins with:
Maa jeg tage din Haand, nu det dufter af Hø,
og den sølvblanke Helt skjærer Strimer i Sø,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaa XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111011 111111011 111111111 11110111111 1111111101 1110111011 11111101001 011001101101 1111011111001 1111101010 11101111001 11111110001 11111110101 1010111111 1111011001 1010111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same word maa at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ved Engsøen;
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