This is an analysis of the poem Midsommer that begins with:
Vi laa paa Maven, imellem Skræpper, og dræbte Myg.
Der kom ej nogen, vor Broder Snogen gled hjemmetryg....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXA bbXXXA XcXXdXXXd eXeXXf XXXXXX XXXXgX ffXcXXee gXXXg XXehXX XXXXXXXdXfX XXX XXXX hXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,9,6,6,6,8,5,6,11,3,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101001111 11110110101100 1100011111100 11010110011000 1100011001101 111101001111 11101111101 11111101111 1011111101110 111111101111 1111011111 1101111101111 1100011110 1111111110 11110110101110 111111101111 111101111 0101111 11010111 1101011111101 11110111111011 1110011011101 111101001100 11010110101111 11110111111011 111111011101 110111001100 0110011 101011101100 1110111011010 1111110010101111 11101100011 101111101011 111011110 11010111 1111101011 111101001111 110110110111 11111110111 011011101101 1100011010111 111111011101 11011110111 11010111101111 1101011100111 11111111 101100101 1110110001111 111101100 111011001111 11100111110 01101110011 1100011000 1100011000 111101110 111011101111 011011100 111101000 110001011 1001011010 111001110 1101110101100 11011101111 1110101111100 0110111011 11100111101 111101101011110 11101100001000 1110110001111 11011001101 11010111101100 11111110111 1 111101111111 110111101 11111111100 11110111101001 11110111 111101111 1100111101100 111101101100 1111001110 1111011001111 1001001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vi, f, dr, og, t, i, af, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vi, den, og are repeated.
The author used the same word her 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 len, k, ltes are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word sol at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Midsommer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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