This is an analysis of the poem Et Løst Udkast that begins with:

Enhver Italienerinde er som et Udkast til en Madonna.
Jeg siger: enhver Italienerinde,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXXXX XXbX XXXXXXXXXXXXbXX XcX XXXdX AXcXbXXX XXXXXXXXX aXaeXXXcaXXX cXeXcea dXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,15,3,5,8,9,12,7,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100000111011010 1101010000 11101110011 1111101000 011100000 0111101110 00111100000 11110010 1010111010001 100101011 1110011111100 111011001010 11110000 1011101010 11101110 1111110111010 11101011010110 111111110011111 1110001011100 111100011110 110100001111 11110110111010 11111011111 1101011111 01110001100010 1111111000111 1110111 1110111 11010110 11101111000 0101100 1110111001101 1111110010110 10100000111011010 1111001101 1111000111011 110100101101 11110111 10111111000 10011011111 111110010 1101011111100 11110111 11111011 111111100 110111111110 111110 11111100100 11110101 1111111 111011011011010 11100000111010 1011110 11111111 111100011 11111101110 10111111 111101111 1110011010 1101011011110 110010 111110110110 1001110111111 1111110001101 1110110011011 1101111110 11011 1011111 1011001011010 1111001111 0011001100100011 10111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; de, og, jeg, hun, for, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

    The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Et Løst Udkast;
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