This is an analysis of the poem Josvas Farvel that begins with:
Josva med Arken Guds Folk baned Vei
Giennem Jordans de svulmende Vande,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaX XXXXX XXbXX XaXXX bXXXX XXXXX XXXXX cXaXX XcXXX XXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011101 10100101 11111101 10111111 11110100 100111010 11111111 101011011 11010011 11110100 1011001001 011111111 101100111 1110110110 11110100 10110101 1111111 11111111 1011101 11110100 1011010011 111111111 111111 10001111 11110100 101101101 11111100 10110111 1111100 11110100 110111011 11011111 101011000 101001111 11011110 11111111111 111111 11111101 101101011 11011110 10111111 1111001 11111101 1111011 11011110 1011010111 1100110100 111001111 101011010 11011110 10111111 111111111 0111001011 10111111 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; som, og, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word han is repeated.
The author used the same word josva at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words udgrunder, frihed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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