This is an analysis of the poem Tode that begins with:
Ligger Du her under græsklædte Tue,
Taus i den Hytte, Du ærlige Skjald?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001011 1111011 11100101 11100101 011101111 10001111 011111111 1001111101 10101011 100111001 111101111 110001111 111101111 111010101 101110101 101111111 011111101 10111011 0111011111 10111110 011111110 11111 111011010 11111011 11111101 111101 1011111 110111101 10111110 10111001 11101101 11111011 10011010010 111111111 1001111010 10111101 110111111 10111101 10011011 1011011011 10110110 11011001 111100101 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1621
- Average number of words per stanza: 319
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; du, de, og, i, hans are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word skal is repeated.
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- summary of Tode;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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