This is an analysis of the poem Ak, Den Unge Svæven that begins with:
Ak, den unge Svæven, ak, den lange Favnen
af den korte Drøm om evigvarig Lykke,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX aXX XXX XXa XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 1111110001 11111010 1111101110 10111110 101010110 111001101 11111110 1110011010 10101111 11101001 11101011 110101100 111011111 111000101 1110111000 01111111 1010101100 101100110 11101101 10111100 110110100 1011101100 101111100 101101011 10100010000 1101101110 111101111110 10111000 111110110 1011010011 110001110 1010110110 1110101111 11111110 10110111111 1011101100 111111000 101010110 111110100 00110011111110 1111111110 110110100 1011101100 101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; den, ak, det are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines studenter is repeated).
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