This is an analysis of the poem Den 10. Fabel that begins with:

Nu Tiden stunded til, at Psylla skulde føde.
Man ey Gudinder, som sædvanligt, saae at møde,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXaabXcXdXXXXXbbbbXXXXXeXXXXffXXXXaXbbXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXgg XXXbXXXgXXXXXXbXXXbXXXXXXXfbXXXcXgXXXbXX XeXXXXeeXXXXXXXcaXXXXXXdXXhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 96,40,28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111011 11100110111 111010101 10001110110 11101110101 1111111011 11011110110 11010111011 11111110111 111111110111 111001111101 11011111011 1111011111010 101011111000 11111111011 110100111101 11011100111 11100111100 110101111001 11110110001 11111111 1111010100110 11010010010 1101011001010 11111111110 1101011101010 1110110011 111110011 001111110010 1101011101010 01010101011 101001110100 1101011101010 110011101100 1101011101 1101011111 1011110101 111101111101 11111100101 1111111101 1111111111 11010111101 1001111011 1101111011 11111110010 1101011101110 100111111 1011011011 110101100111 1111011011 11111100101 11101110 101111111 11011111101 1110111011 11101110110 11100110011 1101111111 11011100111 11110100101 1110001111 11010111110 111011111 1111110110 11010011011 11110111001 110100110111 111101110100 11010100111 1111110010 1101011101 1101110010 11010111111 1110111011 11101110100 11010111011 11010101010 1101111101010 10011111101 11001111101 1111111110 111011101100 111101111101 1111111111 11010110110 111101111111 111111111 1111101101 11011111011 10011111111 10010111110 1100111111 11111111011 11011111111 11011111111 111011011 11101 101101 1011111 1111100 1011110 1011101 1111111 111111 11111100 1100110 1111100 0110111 111111 1111101 11101110 1111101 1111110 101111 10111110 1011101 1111011 111111 1100110 1111 1011111 1001111 101101 1110100 1111010 111011 10111100 1110101 1110111 111111 1010101 111011 11111 111010 111101 1010100 110101110111 11101111011 11110110101 111100111 11111111100 110111101100 1110111101 1010111101 111001110101 1011110110 111111111 11111110100 1111111111 1100111110 1110011110 111111111001 1101111111 100101010110 11101110111 111110111101 11011110110 111101110110 11111110110 1111011111 1111111010 11010011111 111011011 111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2415
  • Average number of words per stanza: 443
  • Amount of lines: 164
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, d, du, med, ey, i, lad, og, han, jeg, mig, at, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, mod, ved, med, for, som, lad, den, naar, gid, af are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, ve, re, d, rk, nder, ttes, er, kker are repeated).

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  • summary of Den 10. Fabel;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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