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

Nu taler vi atter, som vi har Forstand til
(forlad os en Skik, vi desværre er vant til!)...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX bbb XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110111101 1011111011 1111011111 1111111011 101111111 111111111101 1011111111 1100110111 101101111 1101111111 100011010 1101011101 1110101101 1101101011 111110101 1010101101010 1011110010 01110100110 01011100111 110111110011 1001111101111 11111111111 1000111111 111101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; vi, til, man, har, des, de, re, som are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines til, des, de, ham, re are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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