Frugtbarhedens Tog by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Frugtbarhedens Tog that begins with:

Den søde, forelskede Blomst
og Rankerne, der kror sig og gror...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXX XXXaXXXaXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001 11011111 11011110 110110 1110 10110011000 10111111100 10101011 1101111101 10111000 1111010 1110101100 1111110 1111111000 111011110 1011110111 111110101 11101111 11111110 11110001 111110110 110011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; og, i are repeated.

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

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

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