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

Hvi sysle de saa travlt i Skive hist
Med Skuespil, Musik og Transparenter?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 1101011000 110101101 1101100110 11101010 11001110 110011100 1110010001 1100111101 100111100 1101111100 111001111 1100110101 11011100010 1100110110 11011100110 11011111 10010011000 11001111 11111101010 111111101 1111110101 11111111 1111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; den, han are repeated.

    The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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