This is an analysis of the poem Udenlands that begins with:

Udenlands, paa et fremmed Sprog,
blev jeg spurgt om Navn og Stand,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XXaX aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011101 1111111 10111011 101011110 1100101111 101011011 11101111 10011011 11101101 1101001100 1101010 111010111 110111101 11101110 11111011 1100101 1100111001 1000111 111011101 1111111110 111111101 11011111 11111111 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines land is repeated).

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

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