This is an analysis of the poem Undiné.From The Danish that begins with:
Undiné by the lonely shore,
In lonely grief, is pacing; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dXdXeXeX ababfXfg Xhihdcdc jhjhfgfX iXiXkbkb lhlhmcmc nbnbibiX gXXXhbhbXjbjbnbnb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010101 0101010 01010101 1101010 11010101 01010010 01010101 111010 01010101 0101100 010100111 01001100 010101001 1101010 11010101 0101010 11010111 01011100 01010101 11110100 10010101 0111010 10010111 1111010 11010110 1101010 11110101 0101010 100011111 0111010 110100101 0101110 11110101 0101010 11110101 1111010 10010101 0101110 01010001 1101100 11010101 1101110 11011101 1111010 11011101 0101010 11000101 0100110 11111111 1101010 01010111 0101010 11010101 0101010 01001111 0111110 10010101 1101110 11011101 0101010 11110111 11000110 11011101 0101010 01100101 0101110 11010111 0101100 110100101 0101010 010010101 0101010 01010111 1101010 011101101 0101010 11010101 1101110 110100001 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase listening connects the lines.
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- summary of Undiné.From The Danish;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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