This is an analysis of the poem Skygger that begins with:
Om det saa blot er mine Hænder,
saa skælver de, hver Gang de griber dine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXX bXbXXX bXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 110110101 1111011110 1101110011 1111111111 1101111101 1101011110 110101111 1101011110 111011010 11110111 1111110111 111010111010 11000111010 1101101000 01011100010 1111111101 11111101 1111011111 1111011101 11011110 110101011 1111111111 1111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, saa, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
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- summary of Skygger;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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