This is an analysis of the poem En Gaade that begins with:
Hvad er det, man ved Obis kolde Elv -
I Saharas Ørk med lige Iver søger?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXbXbXXXXXXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111011 1100111101 1100110111 1110110110 11011110 11110010 11110000 10110111 1011111111 11111011 110111011 11111111 111111110 1000110110 11011111011 1101111100 1101011 111110100 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 736
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; nder, som, det, man are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word som is repeated.
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- summary of En Gaade;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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