This is an analysis of the poem Vers Til De Døde Mestre that begins with:

Som ung jeg havde Stamkafé
i Lykkens saligste Allé....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcbc XdXXXeeX XXXXXXXXXXXXeeXXXXXX aaXeXXdXdX XXXXXaXXXXfXXaXXaddXdfdffXXX XXXXXfdXXXXXXXX XXXXfXeXeX XXXXX XXdXXX XggXXXXXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,20,10,28,15,10,5,6,9,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 110101 11111111 1011110 0111101 1110111 111111 11011101 1111110 1100111 1111111 11110101 11011001 1101110 11011101 11011111 1111110 1101111 10101101 1100100 1111111 1111111 11011 1101111 11111111 101111 1111101 10101101 110111 111011 1111111 1111111 11011010 10111000 11010110 1110111 110110 1101110 11110111 111111 1110101 11111 11110111 1101110 11110111 111111 11001101 11 11111 11111101 11111101 1000011 11111111 11010111 11011101 1110111 11011101 1100101 010101 11101100 10011101 1111101 1111111 11111101 1111111 111111 1111111 1111111 111011 111111 1101111 1111001 110110 11010001 11011101 10010111 1111101 11010111111 1100101 1111111 11100101 1110 110111 1001100 1110100 110111 110101 101110 1101100 1100100 0111010 10101111 1111100 11 110111 111111 111110100 1111110 11011100 1101100 1111101 11001100 11011011 11101 111011 11011111 1111011111 11000100 10111100 1101110 10111101 110111 110111 111111 110011 110110 111111 11001 110100 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; saa, synger, han, d, det, jeg, en, og, et, tegn, er are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, jeg, det, vi, og are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, han, g, mmer, re are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ulf connects the lines.

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  • summary of Vers Til De Døde Mestre;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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