This is an analysis of the poem Til Trankebar! that begins with:
Til Trankebar, til Trankebar!
Ak, hvo der dog en Sømand var!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX Xa XX XX XX XX XX XX XX bb XX XX aX XX XX XX Xa bb XX Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001100 1111111 1100011 1100111 11011101 111100 1111110 1100111 1101011 111100 1101111 11110101 110100 0101101 0111010 1111110 11000101 110011 11111110 1110011 11000111 11010100 1111111 1111101 11111 01111100 11110111 11001101 101011111 11010111 1101111 11011101 11010111 1100111 1111111 1101110 110111 11101101 1111100 011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 58
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; til, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, o are repeated.
The author used the same words o, da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, k are repeated).
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- summary of Til Trankebar!;
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