This is an analysis of the poem Skieløberen that begins with:
Bjergsøen er med Iis belagt,
Paa Fjeldet blinker Sneen hvid,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX bXbXXX XXXaXX aXXaXX aXXXXX XXcXXX XXXXXX XXXXdX XecXaX XXXXdX XeceXX fXXXXX faXadX XXXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1001110 1101011 1010101 11010110 101101010 110101110 11011101 101010 11111111 1101111 101101000 11111010 11011101 1111101 1101110 110100111 10111101 1010111 0101111111 111101 1111011 1111111 11010101 1111111 11010111 1011011 1101111 1111111 1101011 1111111 11111110 11111110 1101111 111111 1110101 1001111100 1101111 111010 10001000 111100010 10011101 11010100 11111101 1101101 11011101 1110111 110111010 111101110 110111110 1101111 1110101 11111100 1101101 1101011100 11011111 110111 11011101 1110111 111101010 111101110 11111110 11000011 111101 11001111 101111010 11110110 1010111 11011001 11010111 1111101 1101111 111101110 1100111 11110101 11110111 11011101 11011010 1111110 1101011 1110111 1111101 1111101 1111111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, lge are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, din, den are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rer, de, ver, lge are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word de at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Skieløberen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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