This is an analysis of the poem Trappen Til Helvede that begins with:

Det er, som skjulte Orkestre klinger,
paa Skuldrene voxer usynlige Vinger ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX a XX X XXX XXa aXX XXX XX X XXXXbXXX XXXXcX dXXXXe XaXX XeXe XXX X aa XX Xd X ccXXaXXXXXXXX ddXXeX XXX fdXaXX X fXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXdX X XXXXXXb XXXXXX X XeXXXXXX XdXXX XXXX XXXXcXXdXXXeeXXXXXXXeXaX eXddXXXXX XXXXe XX f XbXXXXXXd XXXX XXX XXXddbXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,2,1,3,3,3,3,2,1,8,6,6,4,4,3,1,2,2,2,1,13,6,3,6,1,5,14,1,7,6,1,8,5,4,24,9,5,2,1,9,4,3,21,13,13,5,14,7,7,4,2,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 1101010010 111110110 10111110110 11111010100 11111110110 111110001111 1111111 1100110111 011111110 11111011000 1101111010 11101110110 11011110100 11011010000 111111110 11111110110 111111111001 111101111 11010111 1 1011111110110 1011111011 110110110 11111010110 11011111 111110110 1101011110 11111011000 1111111110 1101100100 110111101 11011011 11101111 1101011011 111111101 11011111111 1101011011 111111111 110111011 101100100 11111110100 11110010 11011011110 11110011010 111101111 110111101 1111001101 1101111 11110111111 110110110111 111111001 1110011111 110111110 110110110 111111111 1101001110 1000 00101 1 1111111 1110101001 1110101001 111111011 10101010 101011110 111111101 110110001 110110111 11111001011 11011101 11011111110 11111110100 100000101 10111110101 1011110111 1111101111 1111111011 101111011000 1111111110 11100100110 110100100110 111110110001 11111001111 111111110 111111110110 1111011110 11111111100 101001110110 111011101 0110110110 111011111 111111001 1000110111 111111000 110111101 110010111 111111111 11111110 110011111010 1100101101 110100110 110111110110 1100111011 11100110111 111011110100 1010001010010 111111101001 1000110111 11111011010 11111110 11111011010 1111001111 011011111 111100010000 111011111 111010011110 11100111101 1111111000 111001110 110111110110 11011101110 1 11100111110 1110110001 1111111111 111111100111 11011111101 1111101000 1111101110 10001001100 11011011100 1111110001 111111100 1111110110 110111100 1101111111 11010111111 11111100110 1111111110 1101111110 1111011110 111010110110 110111110 1101111011 1101010110 11011010001 111110111 111111010 11010111000 10011011111000 111111101 111111111 10011111010 11011000 1101101110 111111011 11111101 11110101 110101111 11011011011 0111000000 11111011010 111110101101 1110111101 1111100011 11001111 11011101101 111111101 11111010011 101001110110 111111111 1101110111 1111111111 1011111111 11011011001 1101101011 01111001 1111 11011 1 111111011 11110111 1101111101 111100111000 111101011110 110101010 1111110110 11110001100 10111110111 1101010110 111111101110 1111011011 110110111 100111100 111111111 11110100 1110001101 11011111 11011001000 111111010 110010110110 1011101001 1111000110 1110011010 1100111001 1101100100 1100111000 11111011 1111111 1101110111 111010110 1110110100 111111111011 11111111110 101111010 11111111011 1111110110 1 1101101011 1101101111 110011111 11111000 111101111 1110111 1101101101 1111001011 1111110111 1100111111 111101111 11111011011 1110111110 111011011010 1101101110 1100111101 111110111 110010100 1111001011 1101011011 111010010100 111111101 11110110100 1001100101 10111011110 110011000 10111110 1111101111 111111101 111110110 11111101 100111110 111011010 11101111101 10110010110 11110111110 11001101010 11111111 111110110110 11011011 111011011 111110 1111111011 11101101 11111010 1101111001 11111110 1101111 11110111 1110101000 1101100100 1 1010001110 1101110001 11111111 1111110100 111110110110 1111010110 110111111 011110010 11001011101 1101111010 1101011100 111111011 111011101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 54
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 285
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, han, de, og, rker, man, re, var, som, der, for, at, det, til, et are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words hans, 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 de, fter, nok, rning, rker, re, ses, gte, nder, der, mme, gt, rte, m are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words de, re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Trappen Til Helvede;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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