This is an analysis of the poem Gamle Surdei! Ud Af Huset that begins with:
Gamle Surdei! ud af Huset!
Bort alt Surt og Skarpt og Dødt!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXaXXa XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XbXbXXX XXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 111111111 111110 11111 1111110 11111010 1010001 1111010 10011 111110 101011 1111111 1111111 111000 10011010 1100101 10011010 1000101 101110 101101 110111 111111 11110 111111 101111 1111101 1001001 110100 10111010 101111 11101010 11111 1111111 1111101 111011 1011101 1110101 1011111 1111101 11011010 11101000 111100 1011110 010011 111111 111011 10111110 1111010 111110 1011001 11011 111111 100111 1110101 1011101 111011 101110 1010101 1011000 1110010 10111 1011111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dyd, paa, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dyd is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines der, den are repeated).
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