This is an analysis of the poem Dampskibet 'Løven' that begins with:
Farvel! Det stærke Dyr skal ud at svømme,
Sort stiger Dampen af dets Næseboer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXX XXbXXXXX XXXcXaXX bXXXbXXX XdXeXeee XXfXXXXX XeXeXXXX XXXeXXdX XXXcXXXX XfXXbeXe aaXcXXXX XXXXbdbX XXXXaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111111 110101110 111111 1101011111 1100110111 110111100 110111111 111111101 1111010101110 110111101 10111110 110101111 111111111010 1101111101 1110110110 1110101111 111110110 110101111 1111101010 110111101 110110111 1111110111 1111010111 11111111 10111101010 111111011 1111101010 1100011111 11111110 1110111111 0111101100 1111001 1111010111 1111111 101111111100 111110101 11111111 1110111111 111101011 110111001 111100110 011000111 1111010101 11111010 11111111 111011000 110110101 110011001 111111110 1110111101 10010101010 1011010111 1101101100 10011110 1110100110 1101010101 11100101 11011111 1101010110 1001110001 1001111110 100111101 1011111010 1101111111 101111111 110110111 101010101 1111111 111110111 111001111 1111110011 1111011101 101011110 11101011 1111111100 110111100 1111110110 110110111 1110111110 11110010111 1110110111 1101110001 11011101 11110011 11111101 01101111 11101111 100101011 10110111110 1001111100 110101100 111011101 110111110 11010101101 1101011110 111110111 111111111 11001110 1111010111 110101011 1111110111 010001101 11000111 111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; min, den, jeg, som, af, var, og, da are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same word farvel at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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