This is an analysis of the poem Tiden, Kjerligheden Og Venskab that begins with:

En Olding, som man Tiden kalder,
Sig nærmer til et Pigechor;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX aXXXXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010 1111100 11011010 11010110 11101011 111111 11110110 11010110 0110110 11111100 0111111 110111010 11100100 11011100 11011010 1111010 110011100 11011111 110111100 1111101 111100110 1111111 111100100 1111010 11001101 1011111 110111010 11011101 10011111 1111001 11110010 1101110 11110110 11011101 11101101110 1100111 110111010 11110111 1111110 10111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word man is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Tiden, Kjerligheden Og Venskab;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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