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

Min egen Sjæls Gudinde, som alene bør lydes,
hvis Navn er som en Salve, der duftende udgydes ......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110101110 110111110100 10011101111100 1101000100110 1101101111010 11110111110 10011011110 11111111100 1101110110111 111110110111 110111011110 11011110110 10111100101111 111000101110 110111101111 110010111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; som, af, i, det are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de is repeated).

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  • summary of Anadyomene;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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