Paa Frihed Høres Alle Skrige by Knud Lyne Rahbek: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Paa Frihed Høres Alle Skrige that begins with:

Paa Frihed høres Alle skrige,
skjøndt Faa kun veed hvad det vil sige....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXaXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 11111111 111111101 11011111 1001111 11110101 1011100 1110110 1111111 1101111 1101111 11101100 11111110 11111100 11101100 0111111 01110111 11001111 11111 0111111 10111100 11111101 1110111 10111100 1111101 11111101 1111011 111011 1101011 1101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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; jeg, er, og are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nges, re, de are repeated).

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