This is an analysis of the poem Den Frivillige I Indkvartering that begins with:

Her hos denne Præst jeg aander atter
Efter den Strabads, hvoraf jeg led....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXX XbXXXcXa XcaXXcXX XXXXdXdX XXXXaXXb XXXXcXcX XXXbcXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111010 101101011 011011110 1011110 11110111 1111110 111010111 11101111 101110111 111011111 111111111 11111010 101110000 1111011 0011101100 11111101 10111111 011010010 111111111 111011110 110001101 1111101 111111101 11111111 10111011 10111101 11110111 110100101 111011110 1110111 1011111110 111110101 11101111 1111111 1111111 110011101 11111111 1111001 111111101 10110011 111101111 1111101 11101101 111110111 1101101010 111011101 101101110 11101111 111111100 111110100 1111001110 10100111 111011110 11111111 1011111000 101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, hun, r, d are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Den Frivillige I Indkvartering;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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