This is an analysis of the poem I En Park that begins with:

Jeg bider ikke dine kyske Læber ...
Du er saa bleg, Dødsfjende-Hjærtenskær....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXaXaXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXabXX XcXXacbX ccXccXXX XXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,11,7,8,8,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 001111 11111 0111 110011111 11111101 010111100 1101110111 110001111 110111101 1111110100 1111111 11111111110 0110101100 1111000100 1111011101 011101111 11111011 001101011 11111110 11111110101 11101110 1110111 110001111 11011011 1101011101 1111111 10110110 111010110 1001110011 011111101 1101111010 110111111 1101011110 1111111101 1101011101 1101010111 1110110 1001111111 1101111101 1101011010 1000111100 1101111110 111110101 111111010 101111110 1001111110 10111110 1110101110 111111111 111110110 11111100 111101111 10010111010 100101010 1011110 1101011011 110111101 111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; de, r, en, og are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ber, l, d are repeated).

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  • summary of I En Park;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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