This is an analysis of the poem Ærens Mareridt that begins with:

Jeg drømte, at jeg var æret,
af alle æret,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXX XbXX XXXXXXX XXXX aXXXXX XXXXX XXXaXXXXXX XXXXb XXXXXa XX XX XbX aaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,7,4,6,5,10,5,6,2,2,3,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 111 1111111 10010 111110 11110 11111000 111111100 111101011 111111111 11011101 11111101 110111101 1001101110 111011100 1110001110 1111111 111111111 11111101 11001111001 111111110 110101110 110011 1101100110 1100111 11101 1110101 1101111 1111011110 11111111 11111111111 011110111 11111011111 1111011100 11110111 111111101 111101111 110101000 1001101100 1100111110 1111101111 110111111011 110101111 1001111001 11011011000 1111011010 1101111010 1111011101 111101011 1101 1111 1111111000 11111111110 11110110110 1101111100 01111001 10111101111 1111101 1101111010 111101101 111110 11010 11111111 10010 111110 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, ret, med, og, mte, s, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words med, og, jeg are repeated.

    The author used the same word og 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 ret, mte, de, dt are repeated).

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  • summary of Ærens Mareridt;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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