This is an analysis of the poem Afsked Fra Verden that begins with:

Det er paa Tiden, bort jeg vandre maa,
Den blege Død har lammet mine Kræfter, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101111 11111011 110100111 111011110 11111011101 1101001110 1111011101 111111111 1111011110 110111111 11111111111 1101111111 1111011101 1111010101 110111111 111100111 110111110 11110101010 1110010011 11110101010 11111111 11111101100 111011111 111110110 0101101011 11110111100 1011110111 1001111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; jeg, har, ei, du, mig are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Afsked Fra Verden;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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