This is an analysis of the poem Saba that begins with:
Hvad fandt du som ung i den fremmede Stad?
en skjult Poesi? en ukendt Idé?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc XXX XXX X dXaXXXXX Xcbd bX X XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,1,8,4,2,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111101 111011011 10100001 10110110 1101000 110111111 111111110 101111111 1111110 1011110110 111111111 11010111 111101101 10101101 10111110 1010110101 11010010 11011101 1110110111 101101100 1100110 110100001 01011010111 1111111101 110011111 1111111101 11111 10001011 11101111011 1110101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, hendes, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hendes is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Saba;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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