This is an analysis of the poem Tanker I Anledning Af Frøken Sophia Dorthea V. Holstein's Dødsfald that begins with:

Den Aand, for hvilke Dødelige blegne,
Mord-Engelen stoed over Cimbrers Egne -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXabXXXXaXXbbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXccXXXXXXXcXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXbXXXaXXXXXddXXcXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 84,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 1100110101 100111011 10011111 11011101 1111011 1001110111 10110111 111011101 110111110 1110111 11111111 110111111 1101111111 111111101 111111111 111110111 11111011 11110101 1111001 111101111 1101110101 1001011000 111011101 11111111 1111101 11011111 111001101 11111111 1100111101 1010100110 1111011010 10101101110 0101100110 1101111111 110111101 011111110 11110111010 111111011 1101100011 1111011100 11111100 1101010111 11011111 11010110110 10110101110 1011111101 1101111001 1101110110 11111010 11111111 1011110111 111111101 1101110001 1110111101 0111011110 10010101100 11111111010 111011100 0111110111 1111111001 110001011 11110101010 1101110110 11110111 011100010 100111111 100110110 01010101010 1111100010 111101101 110110111 111101101111 111011010 111111011 11101111 10011011 1101110101 11111101 1111111110 101011110 11111111100 11111101 111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3469
  • Average number of words per stanza: 650
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, til, d, de, det, som are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nner, re, le, ye, rd, de, rdig, ber, d are repeated).

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  • summary of Tanker I Anledning Af Frøken Sophia Dorthea V. Holstein's Dødsfald;
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