This is an analysis of the poem Afskedssang Til Academisterne I Sorøe that begins with:

Jeg veed et Sted, som jeg har elsket længe,
Dets Navn skal aldrig i mit Hierte døe,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXa XXXXXXXX bcbcXXXX XXdXXXXX XXXXXeXe XXXXXdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111101 11110111110 1101010100 1101011111 11010101010 111010101 1111101110 1101100111 1111100111 11101111 111011101 1111111 1101111000 1100001101 111111010 11111111 1111101111 11011111 110110101 110110001 1111011101 111111011 111101111 110101101 1101011110 1111011100 11010111010 1011011101 111111110 1111110 11110101110 111101110 01110101010 110111011 0111010110 11011111 0101111110 11101001 1011010101 110111111 11011100100 1101110110 11010110110 110101111 111111111 111101110 110111001 101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; den, og, der, dens, hvo, i, har are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, hvor, den, og are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Afskedssang Til Academisterne I Sorøe;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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