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

Perlebaand paa Heste af Træ,
Tømmer med Muslingeskaller paa,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX aaXX XXXX bbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111 11100001 111111 100101100 100001110 1101100 111111100 10011110100 1101110 100011110 1000111 101101011 1111010110 11111110 111111101 11111111110 10101010 111010110 110111 101000 1101101 1011101111 11111110 101111111 101011111 11001001 11111110 111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; og, mig, jeg are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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