This is an analysis of the poem Bøgen Og Nælden that begins with:

Den røde Valmu' ler til Landsbypigen:
„Nu har vi overstaaet Verdenskrigen"....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XXXXXX XXXX aaXaXXX XXXX XX XX XX XXaX XXXXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,6,4,7,4,2,2,2,4,6,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111000 11110010000 110110110 1111011100 11001111 10111100100 111111010 110110100 111111011 1111010101 11111111010 1111011110 1001110100 10110111100 1111101100 11110101110 1101111110 1111111110 1111100100 11000100110 11111011010 01101011 111101111 110110011 100111101 11011101 110101111 101100111 1100110101 1101110110 111110111 111111100 1110111000 11101111 100111001 1011111110 111011010 111101111 1101111 11110011 1111110111 1101110010 11011101010 11111011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, i, og, er are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines le, lden, lder are repeated).

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  • summary of Bøgen Og Nælden;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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