This is an analysis of the poem Den Døde Mand that begins with:
Det var ikke blot hans Frue,
samt alle de Faderløse,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaX XXXa XXXX XXaX XXXb bXaX XXXb XXXX aXXXXXXX XXXX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 11010 11011100 1111110 11011010 111110 11110010 11001100 100010 110111100 1100110 11111100 111110 11000110 110110000 1111110 110110100 1111111 1111101 11000011100 11101110 110010110 11100010 101110 100010110 111110 110010 0101101 110110110 10111011 110 10111011 110 010110110 11110010 111111 11110111 101101 110110 11011011 1101110 110101 10111 110100 11011110 10110100 101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.
The author used the same word det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Den Døde Mand;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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