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

I Riddere gjæve! hvo drister sig til
„At dykke til Malstrømmens Bund?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXX XbXbXX aXaXcX XXXaXX adadXc XXXaXX XXXeXX XXfXXX aXaXXg XXXfXX bbbbXg XdXdXX hXhXXX XiXiXX XaXXXX XXXeXX XeXXXj iXiXaa XXXacX adXdkk ijiXXX XXXXXX XXXXhX iXXeXc fdXdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111011 111101 111011 11010011 110101101 1111011000 11010101 1100011 10111010 11111101 11101111 1110101100 01011101 1111101 01101101 110111101 111110110 11111011010 1101111 1101101101 1101111 110101101 11010111 1101111001 111111101 1111111 110101111 11011011 1111010110 111010010 1110110110110 111011011 1111110110 11011111 1011101111 1101010011 11110111 1110101 111010101 110111111 1110100110 10101110110 111101010 11010011 1110101011 1101000101 101111100 1101011010 1101110101 1101111 111011111 11101011 111101 11011111 110010110 111101111 1101101010 11011101 11011011 110100110 110111011 1100110101 11101111 10110011 111111 1111111 1110110110110 111011011 111111110 1110111 111101 01011101 111010111 1101101101 11111111 111111101 1011011011110 111111010 11110111 110110111 111110111 110101001 1101111100 111111010 11101111 110101101 110001101 110011111 11011101 11110011 10111101 1111011011 110111111 1111111 110111010 10010010110 11111011 111011 1101111111001 1101101101 10100111 111111 110111101 101101 11111101 1111111 11000111 1111111111 11111101101 111100101 110011011 11111001 1101001010 110111100 11101101101 1101111011 11101101101 11111101 1101111 110111011 11011001 110100110 1111011 0101011010 11011101 1101110101 1101011011 110110111 1101111101 11011101 1011011100 1100101010 110101010 110111101 11001111010 1101101011 11011111 1101101011 1100101101 11101101 111111111 1111111001 11111101010 1111111110 01111101 011110101 111111010 110110101 110110111 11001011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 150
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, d, en, han, er, n, du, hende, seer are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, da, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word og 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 re is repeated).

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

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

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