This is an analysis of the poem Peder Lykke that begins with:
Den Nordsø! det er et uroligt Vand,
Og tumles af Stormene stændigt....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaX bcbX XXXX XXbX XcXX bXaX bXXX XXXX dXdX XXXX XXXX eXXX dXXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX XebX XXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011001 1101101 111101111 110001010 1100111111 110010000 01110110 11101010 11111010 11001111 111011101 011101 01111001 11010110 1100111111 01011010 1111101111 111011 11111111 1111011 111111110 11010100 010011111 1111101000 111111111 1101110 11111111 111101100 110101111 111010 1111100101 11111 1111111111 1101110 11011111 1101110 1100101101 1001101 1111101 1111111 1101101011 11001011 11111110011 110111100 1111101101 10110011 11011111 1011011 1101111111 111110010 111111111 101101100 111100101 1101101 110111011 1101101 01011101 110101 100110111 11111111 111111011 1101111 1101011101 11111011 111110011 110111 110110101 1100111 1111111 1111010 110101110 101110010 111110110 1111111 1101011001 1111011 10111100 010111 110110111 11011111 1101101101 01111110 11111101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; de, og, han, i, den, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, den are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase den connects the lines.
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- summary of Peder Lykke;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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