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

Mens et nyt Aarhundred med Skodder af Jern
har indestængt Mennesket nær og fjern...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXbXbXXXXX XXXXX cXcXXX DXdXXXXXbX XXXXeXXcX XXXXXX Xe aaXX XXXX b XX DXX acXcXXXXX bXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,5,6,10,9,6,2,4,4,1,2,3,9,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011011 110100111 11111011110 110110001 11111101110 1110011011 111101001 11111100 1111001011 11000101000 11101000 1101111100 11100110110 11001111 111111100 01010100 01011011001 101111101 111 11011111111 1111011010 1101111 11000010111 110010110 11111111 11111001 001010111 11011111 001110111 11110101 00111111 110101111 11010101 11110011111 10101011110 1111110100 11100111 110111111 11110101100 110011001 110111110 10011110 11111111 1110111 11001101100 1111111110 1110011100 1111101 111101110 1111100 101011100 11111 11111111 1111001111 111111010 11111011 10100111 101011010 111111011 11011111101 1010110 1101110011 111010101 11111001 001011111 11110101 111111110 111001101 11111011110 111111101 110101010 11110011111 1111100110 110110111 1101111100 11011111 111100110 110011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; og, n, det are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words det, lad 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 rker, nke are repeated).

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

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