This is an analysis of the poem Norwegian Students' Greeting With A Procession To Professor Welhaven that begins with:
Hear us, O age-laden singer!
Streams of your tones are returning,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXabacca ddeddeXffa aacXacabXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 10111010 1011 10010110 10110010 1111 11110010 1001 0011001 11110011110 11110110 11010010 1001 11110110 11110010 1001 10110100 1111 1001011 10010110010 10110110 10111110 1001 110111000 11011010 0101 10110110 1101 110011110 10110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines blue is repeated).
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