This is an analysis of the poem Kan Du Drømme Med Mig? that begins with:

Kan du drømme med mig
til en Lykke dig ind...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXX XbXbXaab XXaaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 11111 101111 101111 1111111101 01011111 11101111 11111111111 10111 11101 11101 11101 101011101 1111011 111011101 1100111011 10111 111000 111101 111101 11101111101 111011011 11101111 11110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same word kan 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 nge is repeated).

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  • summary of Kan Du Drømme Med Mig?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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