This is an analysis of the poem Kronborg that begins with:

Kjøbenhavner! reis dig op
Af din Morgensøvn, den tunge,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXXbXX XXXXXbbbXb XXXccXXXXX XXXXXXXbbX XXXXdXXXXX dXXXXXXXXb dXXXXXXXbX XXXXXXbXXX XbbXXXeXbe XXXXXXXffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111 111011 101101 101101 111111 1111110 1110010 1100110 10101100 10101000 111111 11101000 1111000 110101 101011 1101110 1011110 101110 1011011 11101010 1000111 1110010 1011000 111001 0110101 101110 1110110 1111010 1110110 111010 11101000 11110 10011 011011 100110 1111011 11111 1001110 10010100 11111 111100 1010111 111101 111100 1111001 101111 10111 1010101 111101 101100 101011 11101010 11010010 11101 101110 11101010 1011110 1011101 101101 111110 1010111 1110101 101011 101111 101111 11101010 111110 11110010 1010110 11101110 1111101 1110101 1110111 100111 1110101 1001101 10111110 1111111 1110101 11111 111101 1010010 1011110 1011111 101011 1011100 111011 11101010 1111010 111110 100111 1111100 1110111 1100111 1111101 111011 1111101 1111111 1110111 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dig, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tag, h are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i, k are repeated).

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  • summary of Kronborg;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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