This is an analysis of the poem Mennesket that begins with:
Jeg er en Kongesøn, som blev født til for megen Lykke,
og jeg elsker hele Verden ... og jeg blæser den et Stykke....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX Xa XX bb XX XX XX XX XX XX XX aa XX XX XX Xa XX XX XX XX XX XX XX cc XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011111101 1110110111111 111110111101 11101110001 1110111111011110 111101110110 11001111111100 1110100110110 111011111111 11110110011 11101011110110 11100101111110 1110011101110 1111111101010 1101110111111 1110011011100 110001111101 1111011010111 1111101011110 100111111111 10110111101 1110101111100 1111110101 1111101111110 1111010110110 11101110110111 1101101111010 110111001110 11111011111 11111010101 10111101001000 11111110101100 10111011101110 101011111110 1111010101110 101011110110110 1110110111111 1011011111101 101011111011 11111110100 011111111110 1111010110110 110110110101 1010111111 1110111110110 111111010000 1101001111000 111100110010 110111110110 11111111011 110111011 111110011111 11110001101100 1110111111010 111111111010 1111011111010 11011111011 1110101101001 110101011001 111111011001 11101101101010 101110110000 110111111101 111111111111 1111101100110 1101110101000 1111010111100 11111111100 1111110100111 11111110001 10001111110 11111101101110 11011101101110 1100111010000
- Amount of stanzas: 37
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; jeg, og, en, af, i, ser are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, naar, der, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same words og, havde, der, 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 mig, vet, ser are repeated).
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- summary of Mennesket;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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