This is an analysis of the poem Vestre Kirkegaard that begins with:

Her, hvor Tusinder af døde lagdes ned,
her gad jeg leve,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXX XXXbcXX XXXXXXX aXXcXbc XXaXbXX XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110011101 0111 0010110111 1101011 110101110 1101111000 11011101 100111100 1010 1011011100 1111110 111110101010 10111101000 111000110 1111110111 1110 1101110101 111010110 100111110 1011011 101110111 1111111111 11100 111011110 11111111 110101101 1011110110 110111111 0111111101 1100 11101111 10111111 111010100010 110110100 101001100 1101110101 101 1101111111 10110101 1011011101 1111011 10101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; her, en are repeated.

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

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

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

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