This is an analysis of the poem Paa Strandvejen that begins with:
Da vi til Aften spiste i Skoven, Skæbnen vilde,
at det ej ret os smagte, og hun befandt sig ilde....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX aa XX XX XX XX bb XX XX Xb XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11110111011 111111111011 111101011001 111111011110 111110111111 11111111011 111101100111 11001111101 111101011110 11111110110 1111111111 11010110001 11010001011010 111100111110 1111101101100 1001111110110 111111011111 11110111011 1101110111111 11101011101 111110111111 1100010111111 111111011011 11111111100 111111111110 1101101111110 1101110111111 11011111101 111011100010 1111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; og, hun, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same words og, hun 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 nke, rdig, rte are repeated).
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- summary of Paa Strandvejen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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