This is an analysis of the poem Karnevallet that begins with:

Der hvirvled hvide Driver ind ad krogetgamle Stræder,
og Gademyldret hylled sig i Pelsværk og Skind....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXX XbXX cdXXXX XXXXXXXX eeXX dXafXXXX XXXXX X XdXXX XXXXXXX XgXXXhXX XaiXiXXXXX jXXXXXXXebjXXXXXha XaXXXXXjjXXX ffXXXXjXaaeX jXXXXXXXffXXcXX XXXhXXXXXXggXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,6,8,4,8,5,1,5,7,8,10,18,12,12,15,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110111001 110001011111 111011111111 11100100101 11111111 11010101100110 1100011101110 111010110111 11011111001 11011111011 111100001110 111110010111 1111110111111010 11111101111000 10110011 110101 111110111 11110101 1001111 101011100 110101011 110110111 11111011111 1001011011 10010111 110100111 100101110 111101110 1111101110 1101101110 11101010110 111110011010 11011101111110 110101111010 11001111111 1100101111 111111101 110011111001 11011110111 1111001111 10010111110111 111011111 110111001010 11100100101 11110001010 111111100110 1101010110100 11111110 1011101100110 011111011 1111101111100 11111001111110 110111110110 11010100 111011 11101101110 010111111 111001011000 11101111111 11011100100 1111111110110 111111011001100 110110001111010 1111111110101 111111011101110 11111110101100 11111001000 1100011011 110110111 11001111111 110101101 1111011001 11011001111 1011110011 111101101 111101101 111011001 1010011110 10011111 111101011 101111011 101111111 1111111010 1101111 1111111110 1101111 101011101 10100111 110101111 11111001 11101111 111011 111111101 1110111 111101101001 1101110110111 10111111101 11111100111100 1111010010110 11111110110 1111111011 111111111110 11111011111001 111011001101 1110111110111 1100111001110 11110110111 01011111111 100111111110 111111011010 10111101110110 111110111100 11111110010 110111011111 1111011111 110010111111 1111111110110 111001110100 111101111 1111011110 11111011010 11111100 11110100 11001011100 01011110011 11111011000 11111110 111100111110 110111111 111011111000 111001011 110101111 11000101000 1101011110 1101110110 11111111 11111111 1111101111 110100 1110110111 1101111100 1010101101 101101111 111101111101 11000111111 111010110010 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 148
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; der, og, til, sin, for, jeg, var, en, de, mig, i, mis are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sin, og, for, hendes are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines der, nge, re, lgerne, de, ngt are repeated).

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  • summary of Karnevallet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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