This is an analysis of the poem Her Kommer En Paaklædnings-Scene that begins with:

Her kommer en Paaklædnings-Scene.
Vi søgte altsaa Gudinden...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX Xbb XXX aca XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX dXd XXX XcX XXX XXX Xad XXX aXX Xee XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101101 1110100 1100111 11111000 1111011 11111 110111 11110010 1101101 11111 1111111 1101111 11111 1110011 11100110 11111 1111110 111111 110010 1101000 1111110 11110000 011011 111011100 11011001 1111111 1111100 111110010 11111 1000100 110110010 111110100 011110 111101 11110110 100111 11110111 110110000 101110 110110010 11111001 11011000 111111 111110100 111111 110111 11111 1101011 11111000 111001 11111011 1011110 111011 1011001 111111 11101 11110100 111001 110101101 11111101 1111111 01101 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, hun, og 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 hun 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 sig is repeated).

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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