This is an analysis of the poem Panisk Skræk that begins with:

Høit alt monne Solen staae,
Fast til Halm den Græsset brænder:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX aXXX XXXX bcbX XXXX XXXX XXXX dXda XXXX XXXX eXcX fXXc XXXb bXbX XXXX baXX eXXX XXeX XXXX cXeX babX XXXX eXXX XXXX fafa dXdX gXgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 111111 10111 11110 111010 1110010 1010111 1110110 1011100 10111 11110 111110 11111 1010010 110011 1110100 111101 1011101 1011101 101001 011011 1111 1010100 11111 111011 1110001 111011 101111 1011111 111111 11101 111101 1011111 1101110 100111 1111010 101101 1111110 1100111 1101010 111111 1011111 1111101 1011110 111111 10111 1111101 11111 1110111 101011 1111100 1100001 11111 11111010 1011100 10111111 1111101 01011010 1011101 01100100 111100 11111010 101111 11101110 11101 1110010 1010111 1110110 1100111 11111 101101 111101 1110011 10010110 11111 111110 101011 101010 1110101 11110 111111 111110 101111 111110 100111 111110 101011 10111010 1111111 1110011 110111 1110011 111011 1001011 1110111 1110101 111101 1011111 111011 101101 1110111 1111110 111111 10101010 1110111 111101 100011 1110110 101111 1110011 11111111 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • 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; jeg is repeated.

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

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

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

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