This is an analysis of the poem When Norway Would Not Help that begins with:

When Kattegat now or the Belt you sail,
No more will you sight...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdbebecccc fcfcghghXhehfafa cbcbijij
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100110111 11011 01011011011 0111 1100100101 0101 1100101101 11001 110111101 10111 0110111011 0101 11111001011 0111 11101001101 11001 0111110101 0111 011110001101 01111 0100101111 1111 01001100101 0101 1110110111 1111 11001001011 0101 0101011011 1101 0101110101 10101 01101001001 11001 0110111101 00101 11011001011 101101 1010100101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; you, no are repeated.

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

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