This is an analysis of the poem Fiskeren that begins with:

En Fisker sad saa stille
Og stirred over Baadens Rand...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXX XXXXXX XaXaXX XbXbXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX bXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 1110101 110101 11111 111111 1101111 111111 111101 11111 11011 111111 1111101 110011 111101 11010 11111 1101111 1111101 110111 11010111 111110 11011 111010110 1101111 11111 11011111 110111 110110 1111111 1111111 11111 11011101 11011 11111 11011101 1011100 1001110 1101111 1101110 111101 11010111 11011101 11001100 1111100 101101 1111 110011111 1011111 111111 11011111 111101 111101 11011101 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; og, er are repeated.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, m are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word r at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Fiskeren;
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  • history of its creation;
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