This is an analysis of the poem Poeten Og Naboersken [de Mænd Og Koner I Sikre Boder] that begins with:

De Mænd og Koner i sikre Boder
med Regnskabsbøger og grublende Ho'eder...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXabX CDdbXXdXXXXeXe CXXXXXafXXXabXXfX XXXXXXXXXXX dXXXXggXX CDbXXXXXbXaX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,14,17,11,9,12,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101110 1100110100 111 010110101 1111011 10110 110011 100010110 101010010 11111 11111 1111111001 1101100100 1101 10101 1101 111001 111101 1111110100 1110101 111111 1011111 11111 11111 11001 11110001 11110110 11011001 111111 1111011 110 11110001 11111110 11011000 1111111 11101100 11001111010 11101111 11111110 111100000 1101111110 11011010 11101000 111101 1111110 11111110 11001111 01010101110 110101000 11110110 1111100 111111101 11111 1100010110 111111010 1110100110 1101101101 11011111010 1111101101 11000100 11111 11111 111110 110011011 111100 1100110100 1111001101 111101110 11001100 1101010 1101011011 1100001000 11110110 110110110110 1100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, var are repeated.

    The author used the same word den 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 nder is repeated).

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  • summary of Poeten Og Naboersken [de Mænd Og Koner I Sikre Boder];
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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