This is an analysis of the poem Sam-Liv that begins with:

Naar i Naturens muntre Favn
Den fulde Siel har længe hvilet,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXaba XcXcXXXX XdXXXXXb XXXbXXXX XXXeXXXX XXXXfXfX gXXXXXXX gXXXgXgX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX eXcXdeXX XXXXhXhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110011 1111110 1111011 111101000 11001111 11011010 11011101 1110110 0111010 111111100 1001111 11010110 1101010 100111 1101011111 1111011111 1111011 1101111 11010111 11011101 1101110 1001111 1101111 11010111 1111100 1101111 1111100 1110100 1111011 1001111 11011101 1101011111 110111001 1101110 111111 11010101 1111101 1110110 1110111 111111 1001110 111101110 1101010 11101010 1101111 11010111 1101101 110011 11110111 1001011 11001101 1110100 1101111 11111100 1011111 1110011 11110110 111111 11110111 11110000 10011101 11111100 111111 11110110 1100011 101101 11111 11010101 1101101 110111000 1011110 11011100 101111 1101111 1111001 1111011 1111111 1100101 11110011 11011010 11010111 1111111 1101101 1101011 10110100 1100011 11010111 1101111 1101100 11010111 1111001 1110101 1110111 1111010 11011100 1101100 11110001 11111010 11010100 1110010 11011111 111011 1101101 110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; den, de, naar, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, naar, og, et, nu, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Sam-Liv;
  • central theme;
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