This is an analysis of the poem Nøglen Til Den Ukendte Dør that begins with:

Den, som kaster sig i Havet for at svømme,
møder Ting, han ej har tænkt at drømme,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11101110111 11111111 101000111010 10101011110 10101011110 011110100110 10101110111 1111111 1011110110 1111010101 111011111 1101111111 1111011100 11100111100 111011111 11101010011 11101110111 1111111111 1100110111 11110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; du, til are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mme, ren, nges are repeated).

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