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

Læredrenge, hæse Stemmer,
Snak, Tobak og meget Spyt,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XbXX XcXX XXXX XbXX XXXX deXe XXXX XXXc dXXX Xeae XXXX AXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 1101101 10000110 1010110 10111000 1011111 11111000 010111 10100010 111010 110101 1110111 10101100 111111 1110101 0110011 1010001 111100 11101 111101 10111100 1101101 11101010 100011 1111010 1110110 1011010 1110100 111110 1111110 11101110 10111110 1010110 10111011 1111010 11111 101011 1011010 101101 1111101 10111 1010111 1111101 1010011 1111101 111101 1110011 1111001 111111010 1111001 1101111 0111010 10101110 1011110 111011 011010 1011100 1110111 11111011 1100011 10101010 1011111 11111110 111111 1010101 111111 10101010 101110 101011 1011010 101101 1111101 10110 1101101 10000110 1010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same words og, hvorfor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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