This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Kalder Selv De Døde that begins with:

Jeg kalder selv de døde
og vækker den kolde Aske...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XaX bXa XcX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX Xdd XXX XXX XXX XXX XXb XXX XXc 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,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101 11111 1101101 11110 111110 1101111 11010100 100111 110100000 1111110 110110110 11111 11111 110111 111110 11110 110101 111101 111010110 11111 1100010 1111100 1101100 11101 1111010 1111110 111101 1111111 1100111 11011010 11110110 1110000 111110 111110 1111010 11101010 11111 11111 11101 111001 111011 11011 11111 11011001 1101 1111111 111101 111101 111110 11111100 11011010 111110 1111011 11011000 1101110 1101101 1101111 110111110 11011001 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, le, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, og, af, jeg are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines st, mme, le are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word le at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Jeg Kalder Selv De Døde;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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