This is an analysis of the poem Messalina that begins with:
O Messalina med det stolte Hoved!
de rige, hæftigskaarne Læbers Tale...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab XXX XXX XXa XXX bXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100011110 011011 1110111 111111100 11010110010 111110010 11111010 111101101 11001111010 11110101000 11111111010 11111111010 1101110100 11111101 1111011100 111110111 1111111110 1111111100 11101101111 10010100101 1101111110 10100010110 11000001010 110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; hvor, og, jeg, de are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Messalina;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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