This is an analysis of the poem Den Sidste Prøve that begins with:
Dengang fra Land til Land den arme Psyche
Landflygtig vandrede, bleg som en Lillie,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaX XXa XXX XbX XXb XXX XcX ccc XXX XXX XXX XdX XXX XdX XXd XeX eXe XXX XXX XXX XXd ddX XeX eXe XXX XXX XeX XXX XXd XXX XXd XcX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXd XXX eXe XXX XXX XXX XdX dXd XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111110 1001011110 101111111 101101011 1011000101 10110011010 111101111 1011100010 11010110 11111101110 11110011 110101010 111111111 1111111 1111110111 1111011 111101001 1001110101 110111011 11111100111 1101101101 1110110101 111101 111101111 1111010110 110101111 1101110100 1111111101 1111111000 1101101110 111111010 11111100 101110100 111111000 1001011110 11011111 1111111100 11111011 110111110 101101111 001101010 1001010 11011101100 11101011 11101010 110111101 101110001 0111011101 1110011111 11111101100 1110110001 111111110 0111111 1111111000 110011000 11100011 010111011 111110100 11111101 1111100111 110111100 10111101100 111111110010 1100111101110 110111110 10011101100 11111100000 1011111111 111111110 11111011 1110101100 111101111 1111111110 1101111110 1111011110 111110110 011111110 1111100110 1110111000 111100111 10110010010 1111000011 11000111000 110111001 1101101110 01101011 1101111110 1111110101 1100101000 1101110101 11000000100 1110100111 1101110110 001111110 1101011110 111111110100 1111110010 100111110 11011110 1101110110 1111110111 11100011010 1001101111 11011111 11011111 1100110011 1101100101 10111011 111110110 111110111 11111111 1111110101 1101010111 1101111111 1101111101 11110101000 11111111110 111011110 111001111 1101110110 1111101000 100111100 111011111 1100110101 1101111111 111111111 1101110011 11110100 10001011 110111111 1101011011 111011111 111101111 11011111111 11111111 1111110111 1111111110 1111011111 10111111110 111111100 1111100110 1111111100 110111110 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 48
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 144
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, hun, den, du, han, jeg, mig, at, en, og, det, i, hvad are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, han are repeated.
The author used the same words den, med, som at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Den Sidste Prøve;
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