This is an analysis of the poem Hos De Ventende that begins with:

Ingen skal trygle eller lade sig nøde:
Menneske og Sol skal gaa hinanden i Møde....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110111 10111110011 1111011110 0111101111110 100111110101 1111010010 100110 1110101 1101101110 111101110 11011111110 1101011000 11111101100 111111110 1101110111 11011101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; vi, rke, man are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, rke are repeated).

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  • summary of Hos De Ventende;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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