This is an analysis of the poem Dramatisk Intermezzo that begins with:

De har været kold og ubarmhjærtig,
siger Jenny gysende og vaagner....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX aXXX XXXXX XXXXXbXXXX XaXXXXX bXXXXXX XXXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,10,7,7,5,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111100 101010110 1001101011 10110110 101101100 11111100 1001101011 1111000 111001101 0110111101 10001111 1001101011 01111100 111011111 1001111 1100110 11111101 1111111 11111111 1111111 10111100 1001101011 111101100 11111010 110110 101111 101011100 111100110 1001101011 111101 111111 1111111 100111100 11101110 1111111 111001101 1001001100 1111110 111111100 101110111 11001111 101010101 1001101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, hun are repeated.

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

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

    The poet repeated the same word pippe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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