This is an analysis of the poem Kulrøg [i Morgenmulmet, Naar Lokomotivets Luger Er Røde] that begins with:
I Morgenmulmet, naar Lokomotivets Luger er røde,
er dine Læber ved Afskedskysset to Jærn, som gløde....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX Xa bb XX XX XX XX XX XX XX cc XX XX XX XX Xa Xc XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001100001001 011110000111 10001101011 01011010101101 111011111111 101011011111 11111000010110 11100101100110 11101011011 1011011011011 10110011001101 101011101101 1111111110 10110101110 1101100101111011 11010110011011 1110111111 1101011100111 11011101001101 1100011000101 1100110011110 1111110111100110 110111010110100 1111011010110110 11101010011101 101101101111101 1010110010101 1111011011 101110111000 10111101111 111001011010111 11111010101101 1011101111110110 111111101010 101011110101101 11011110110111100 111101101011 110110110011111 10101001011010 11011010111110 10111010101010 101110111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er, de, og, gen, som are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same word det 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 de, mig, gen, lken, nke, ilden are repeated).
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- central theme;
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More information about poems by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen
- Analysis of Kulrøg [i Morgenmulmet, Naar Lokomotivets]
- Analysis of Kunstner-Existens
- Analysis of Kvindebevægelse
