This is an analysis of the poem Unge Udødelige that begins with:

Husker jeg rigtigt,
er det ved den af Sienas Porte, som hedder Porta Camollia,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXa XXXXXXXX bXXXXXXbXXXXX XXXaXXXXXX XXcc aXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,13,10,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 0111110111010100 1111000111101100 111100110101100 1100110011100 1111110 101101101110111 0101001111000 111111101 1111111100110 101100 111110110 1111110001100 1100111111101111 10111010011100111 10011101000 11010 100111010110100 1110010 1011110111 1110111001010000110 1001101111000 110010011011101110 1110001 1010111 1111101111110 11111 1110 1111001011000 1101 10001100001000 11000111101 111 1100011 111000111 11011101010 11010111001110 110101100 100001111 111111100 11011 100000 1101 10100111000 1011001 111011 101100011001 111010000110110 101100110011111101011 1101101110110 111100101 110000 11111111111100 11100110011000 111110010 11101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; den, og, min, det are repeated.

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

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

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