This is an analysis of the poem Man Kan Baade Lee Og Græde that begins with:

Man kan baade lee og græde,
naar man til de Store seer;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XXbcXX XbdcaX XXXXXX XdXXXX XXXXcX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 111011 10101 111100 1110100 1011111 10101000 111100 10011110 1110101 111111 110101 1110111 100011 1100100 1111111 100110 101010 11111 1110101 101111 1110111 1011110 110111 010001 111111 11111 111011 0110111 11111 0110101 101101 101101 1010111 111011 1111101 1011100 1111101 1011110 011111 1111111 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; de, er are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Man Kan Baade Lee Og Græde;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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