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

Jeg kender én — hun nød kun en tarvelig Lykke;
da slog hun sig paa Kvinder: de ærbart forfløjne,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX aXXaXXXXXb cbXcXXXXdXdX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,10,12,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110111111001 1111110011 1101110101001 11011111101 01011010101 111111101 111111110110 1100110111110 11011111111 11111111111 111111111101 11110111011 10111011111 10010001111 110110110111 100011000111 1111111101100 11101011111010 1101111110001 1111101110010 11110111100 1111110101 110100101110 1111011110 111111010101 111111110111 11111111111 11011011111 11110011111 111111011111 111110111111 0110010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, var, hun, sin are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hun is repeated.

    The author used the same word jeg 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 jne, nderne are repeated).

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

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