This is an analysis of the poem Øde that begins with:
De bar mine Venner til Graven
og Jorden lukked sig, og jeg blev vaagen....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXa XXX bbccX b Ddd XXXX DaXXX XX Xdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,5,1,3,4,5,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110110 11010111110 10010000111 10011111001 111011111 111011111 111111111 1110110110 111001010 11101011100 1110010110111 1110111111 1111101 111001010 111110010 11011101110 111100110 11111011 110001111 1010 11111 111110010 111101111 10111011110 1111011110 1110111110 111110101 1111111101 11100101100 1111011110 11100011110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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; jeg, ingen, har, de, selv, i, hvor, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, selv are repeated.
The author used the same word selv 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 de, det are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word de at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Øde;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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