This is an analysis of the poem Ved Kjedlen that begins with:

En Damper kom fra Biberich; stolt var den Fure, som den drog;
den stampede med Hjul og Skovl, saa Bølgerne mod Bredden jog....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb XXXX ccbX XXbX XXbX XXXX XXdd XXXX XXXX aabb XXXX XXaX XbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111001111111 1011111111101 1101110111111111 1111111111101 100111111010111 110101111110111 10101111110111 11000111111111 1011111110011 01011101110111 11111011111111 010111111110010 110111001111100 1101110011010111 1011111011010101 1111010111000100 10111111100111 1111111111100 110001111011111 10111011001101 11111011110111 11111101111100 1101110111000100 1101011111111 110111111111101 11111111101001 1101010110110111 1101011111100 1100110111000101 1110111111101101 111111110111100011 1111111110011100 00111011111110 11110111101010 111010011111111111 100111111000100 11101011010101 1111111111111 10111101111111 101111111110100 1111110111110111 111001111111111 1011101111111 10011011101011 110111111110 1111011111011111 100101111001111 1011010111111 11110011111110 1111111111110 1111110111000101 10001011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, af, og, det, han, i, du, jeg, vi, til are repeated.

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

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' 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 Ved Kjedlen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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