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

Der var en Flok Veninder, som Mina tog paa Raad,
som hun forsvared hedt og over Maade,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100110111 1110011101 1011111111 111010101 0110011101 1001011 1010011111 101111111 1101010111101 1101010110 1111011011 1101111110 11011111011 1111111111 11111011011 11011111 1111111111 11111111110 11101110100 1101100110 1111101110 110111111 1111110110111 110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • 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; som, der are repeated.

    The author used the same word hun at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Veninderne;
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  • history of its creation;
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