This is an analysis of the poem Poenitenten. En Ode that begins with:
Hvo styrer nu mit bange Trin?
Hvo viser mig det Lys, som brændte?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcXb XXaXXXXX XXXXXccd XXXXeXXe XXXXbfXb fgXgXXXX gdgdXXXX bXbfXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111 11011111 100111 01111101 1111111 11011111110 11110100 1011111 111111 0110111 1100111 0111111 0111101 110111000 111111100 1111111 111111 100111 11010001 10110111 11101111 10011110 11101110 11010111 101110 11101110 1101100 111001110 1101011111 11100111 1101111 1111111 1111111 111010100 11011111 111111110 10111101 0111011 1101111 011101 10010111 110111 1111110 11010001 11011100 11111110 110101110 11010100 110111 1101111 111110 1011011 111111 1101101 10111011 1111100 0111111 100101 1101101 111001111 11111111 11011101 0101111 1111111 101110 1111111 1101100 11100110 1111110 11001110 111101 1101111 11011111 10110101 11011110 1111110 1111111 11110111 01110111 0101111 1110011 111111 1111111 1110111 10001000 11100111 11011111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hvo, jeg, du, min, d, og, af, o, din, hans, som are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvo, du, og, som, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ie, re are repeated).
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More information about poems by Johannes Ewald
- Analysis of Poenitenten. Et Fragment
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