This is an analysis of the poem Flugt that begins with:

Højt over de dybe Dale og over de blanke Damme,
over Bjærge og Skove og Have og høje Skyer,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXaX XbbX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011110011 1011111111 10010111011 10101110010 1011111111 11110111011 1110101110001 110001011101 11110011001 11111110111 11111110001 11111010101 111101011011 111101110111 111110111101 11111011001 111101011111 11111011011 111010110101 1111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, over, de, din, som are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word held 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 je is repeated).

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  • summary of Flugt;
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