This is an analysis of the poem Den Største Nar that begins with:

Fuld af Narre er vor lille Jord;
Det er vitterligfor hver, som boer...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXX XXbX XbXXXXXX XXcXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XbXXXX ccXXXa XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,8,10,12,8,6,6,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 101000111 10110111 10010100 11001111 101111101 1010101110 101011010 110111 1111111 111101110 1110010010 111000111 11110011 01111001 111011101 011111101 1010001011 111011110 101111110 101101 1100101 01111110 1111100010 1110111010 101011 1110001100 11111100 1111111 1011101 1111011 1101100 011111111 111001001 1111101 11111101 11101110 11111100 10110111 10111111 10111101 11110111 1111101 11111111 0111101100 10100110 110011101 1111111 110011101 11001101 11011101 111011101 01110111 111010001 1110111010 101010010 011111100 10111101 0111101110 1111101010 11001111 11111100 101100111 11111111 1111101 01111101 11110110 111110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er, som, og are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word er 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 ger, der, ver, nke, rer, mper are repeated).

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  • summary of Den Største Nar;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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