This is an analysis of the poem Tre Roser that begins with:

Den Skønne var stemt som en skælvende Streng.
Men saa kom det fæle og vandt Terrain:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 111111101 1101111001 11111111111 1101111100 1101111011 10010010110 1111111110 110110111010 1101111101 111010101 1101111011 1101111111 11011111111 1011111101 0111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, og, hun, hans, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, tre are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines le, ng, rme, nder are repeated).

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  • summary of Tre Roser;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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