This is an analysis of the poem Silkehalen that begins with:
Nordens Phoenix! ligesaa deilig som sjelden!
Er det saa da, lider Du aldrig af Ælden?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010010110 01111001011 11100100001 10101001101 11101011111 11011000111 0111110010 1001111001 101111110110 111110110 10111101110 111111001000 10111110110 1110111010 10101110010 101101111100 1110101001 10101010011 111111111 10111101 111110110 1111101010 111001011010 10111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1036
- Average number of words per stanza: 200
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; i, syv are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word syv is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kker, ldes are repeated).
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- summary of Silkehalen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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