This is an analysis of the poem Ephemeren that begins with:
Ikke veed jeg hvad jeg vil,
Thi mit Liv er Spög og Spil,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXa bcXXX ddXaX eeXXX ccXXX XXXXf XcXXb ggXXX XXccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 111110111 1011101 1010111 1011101 11001 1111100 101111 1011111 11111101 101111 11111 11111010 10101110 101000 111101 1010101 1110011 01110 101110 111110 11110 10111111 101111 101010 1011100 111111 101111100 1000111 111111 11111 1001000 1111001 111001 110111 111101 11011 11111100 10101010 111000 110011 110111 1111010 11111110 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; jeg, er, d are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hvilken is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ger, d are repeated).
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- summary of Ephemeren;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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