This is an analysis of the poem Den Eenlige Brud that begins with:

Den rige Mand triner af Døren ud
Alt under Vinterens Snee og Slud;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXbX XbXX XXXX bXXc XacX XXdd XXXX XbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 110100111 1111100 11111111 10111101 110001011 110100101 11110111 0111111 110101100 110111101 0111111010 1101011101 11110111101 11110101 11111011 110101111101 101111001 11110111 1111101010 111101111 11111101 111111001 111111111 1100110111 11111001 11111111 11111111001 011110111 11011010 11011111011 11110111 01111011 111110111111101 110111101 11011011010 11110100 11011101 110101101 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, jeg, han, ej are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word de 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 kuld is repeated).

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  • summary of Den Eenlige Brud;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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