This is an analysis of the poem Skønheden that begins with:
Jeg er skøn, o Dødelige, som en Stendrøm skøn og stum,
og min Barm, hvor alle Elskere til Blods kun vil sig kvæste,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101110111111 1111110111111 0111100111 110111011101 110110011111010 111001011111 110110110100 110111110110 11000010111 111000110110 1101011111 111101011 1110011111 11111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jeg is repeated.
The author used the same word jeg 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 ste is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Skønheden;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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