This is an analysis of the poem Vale! that begins with:

Vel mig, vel Dig, at Havet har lagt
Sin Ring om vort lille Land!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbaXXXXXXXXX cXXXXXXXX XcXbbXXXaXXXaXXdXddXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,9,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111011 111111 100010111 11111 11111 111011010 111111 111111100 100010110110 1101111010 11001111 1011101101 111111101 111011 1011110 1111011 111111101 11011110000 1011101 11100111 101111011 10111101 1101001101 11011110 101001 11011111000 11111111010 1101111111 110110110 1110110110 111110101 1111110101 11101111 1111110101 10111111 1111101 110111111 111111111 11101111 1111100111 1101100011 11111010 11011101 10110011011 11111101 1110100 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 552
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; til, i, det, den, er, der are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Vale!;
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