This is an analysis of the poem Den Døde that begins with:
Det skønne Hoved paa den hvide Pude
har evigt hvisket denne Jord Levvel,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XbXb XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXa cXcc XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11101111 110101110 11101111 11101111 1011011100 100111011 1111111 1111010101 111100100 111110111 1111111 111111101 111110110 11011011 111111010 1101010100 111010101000 100101101 1111110 1111011101 1111010110 111100100 111111100 11010111 110111101 1111111110 11011101 1111101101 1111011001 110101011 110101010 111111011 11110111110 111111111 111111010 10111010 1001011101 11110011 11110111 111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, der are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , jeg are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of Den Døde;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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