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

Du venter vist, min ømme, fjerne Ven!
At, siden Du forlod din arme Pige,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX Xbcb XXXX XcXX XaXa XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101111111 110010111 1101111101 10101111111 110001111 10101011 1001110011 111100111 111111111 110111110 100111110 111111111 0110011111 110100111 111111111 1111001 1101101001 1111110001 111011101 11111111 1111111110 100111110 11111110 1110111000 111111101 11111111 1111111 111111111 11111111 11111111 11100111 1111011111 1000110101 11111111 11101011 110101111 1011111111 11110111 11011111100 11110111010 111111111 1001110110 11111111101 11111100100 1101110111 111101101 111111101 11011111 1111111 11110001110 111011101 1100011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; du, jeg, i are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase var connects the lines.

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  • summary of Fodsporet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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