This is an analysis of the poem Ryssensteens Bade that begins with:

Himlen er mild, nu har vi Mai,
Bølgen er svagt af Vinden kruset,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX aXXXXXaabb XXXXXXXXXX cXXcXXXXcX XXXXXXcXXX dXXdXXXXXX XXXdXXXXbX XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 10011111 10111010 11111000 111110 11101101 1011101 1011 11111 11101100 110101 1111101 10011100 111010 1111111 1101110 10100111100 1110 1011101 11101101 11110 1110110 100011010 111011010 1010011 1011101 1110111 111 101111 1011101 111111 11011001 11010100 111111 101111 10111010 1111010 10110 1011000 10110111 111110 10111101 1110101 11111001 1110101 111001010 1111110 10110 10110111 1010111 1101110 01111111 101011010 11111110 110111 11101101 111011011 1011 1111100 10110110 1111000 10111011 101001110 10110000110 1011111 111111 111111 11110 110011000 10111011 111011 10100111 111111 100111 10011101 11011011 1000011011 11000 10111011 111111 1101111 1011111 110101 00111101 1110111 1011011010 10110110100 11 110101011 10111101 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; og, alle, den are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ves, ver, nge, fter, rer, mme are repeated).

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

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