This is an analysis of the poem Min Politiske Omvendelse that begins with:

Hymne til Folkevennen
Jeg skrev saa tidt med vanhellig Pen, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXaXb XXXXXXXc dXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXXXXXX eXeXXXXX XdXdXffX cXXdaaXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111000 111111001 11111101 1111100 11101101 11100 1110 111111100 111 11010110 11101111 1101010 111101111 11100 1110 1110011110 1111 110011001 11011011 1111111 110100110 1111 1110 1111010010 0100 110101101 11010111 1101111 101111 1111 111 1111111 0111 11101111 1110011110 11110111 111111010 1111 1111 11111111 0111 011011011 11001110 111101 1110011 1111 110 11110111 1100 01111101 110111101 111101111 1111001011 11111 1101 1111011 1001 11100111 110111111 1111111 110001111 11110 10110 110110000 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; nker, er, re, den, mme are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words at, du 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 nker, re, mme are repeated).

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  • summary of Min Politiske Omvendelse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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