I Dalens Skjød En Hytte Laae by Thomas Thaarup: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem I Dalens Skjød En Hytte Laae that begins with:

I Dalens Skjød en Hytte laae,
Ved Bredden af en Kilde;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXbXXX aXaXXX aXXXXX XXaXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 110111 11111111 111101 11011100 11111110 1111111 11111 11111111 110111 1111111 11001101 11010101 110111 111111 111111 111111 1111101 1111101 11011 1111100 11101 1111111 11011111 1111100 011101 1111111 11101 1111100 11010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; dens, var are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dens, nu, om are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word d at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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