Flakonen by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Flakonen that begins with:

Der er de stærke Dufte, hvis Aande gennemborer
alt Stof, somom selv Glasset var sprødt og havde Porer,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011111000 1110110111110 111111010101 11111111111 11111111111 10111111101 11111011111 101111010011 11010111111 1101011111 11010101110000 100100110111 11111110111111 110111011111 1111001111 10111111000 01011100011010 111101001111110 1111101100 1111001011100 1011010110001 111011100101 11111111111 1011011111 1101110010010 111111110010 101101001111 11010111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, sv, d, du are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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