This is an analysis of the poem Et Farvel that begins with:

Saa gik der da en Vinter,
Saa kom der en Vaar,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXab XXXXXXXX XcXXXcXX XXXXXXXX XXdXXXXX XXXXXXXX XeXXXXXX feXXXgXg XXXXXXfX XXXXXXdX XXdghXXX XXfXXXXb XXXXXXiX XXXejkXk XXaXXXXc fXXXjdXd XilXXXdX XiXiXXXX amXmXXXX XXXXXXXX XbgbXXei XXXkXXXg fXXXfXfX geXeXdgd XXXXXeXe XXXXXhXX aXiXXcfc XXXeXXkX XeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 11111 1101110 11001 110111 111011 11111 11101 0101110 11101 1101110 1111 11111 10111 1100110 101111 010101 110101 111100 1101 111010 11011 1111 11011 1101110 11011 11011 1111 111100 11111 11011 100110 110110 111101 111110 1111 10110 1101 11100 110001 1011 110001 1101000 11010 1111100 111111 111111 11111 100110 111101 0101111 11011 1101010 11001 1101100 10011 111110 111011 111110 110111 1111010 1111 011110 100101 111111 11011 111110 1101101 111110 11101 011110 110111 110100 1111 11110 11111 111010 11101 11111 11111 111101 11100 1111110 111 111101 11111 11001 11011 110111 10010 1111110 11011 110110 11111 110110 11101 10110 1110 11011 1111011 110111 11111 110111 11111 111110 11101 11101 110111 111101 110101 1111110 111111 110111 1111 101101 11111 1111 1101 111 10101 1011010 110111 101110 11001 1101110 10011 1101110 1100110 111010 11111 11111 11010 1101 11101 1111110 11111 1101010 1001 1100010 10111 110101 111100 11101 11101 110011 111111 01111 01111 0111111 0111111 11010 101111 1111110 111101 11110 111101 111100 111111 1101110 111011 1111 11111 101101 11011 1111110 11111 11011 111011 110111 11111 11101 11111 111101 1011100 11111 11101 1111110 110111 1111010 110011 01110 1110111 010010 11111 010101 11101 11101 111011 110111 11111 110101 11101 01111 11111 11111 111111 01011 11111 111101 111 01001 11101 101100 1001100 111101 11111 110101 101101 11011 111010 1101 11100 10111 110001 1101110 111101 110101 11111 10011 010111 110110 110111 111011 11111 1111000 1111 11111010 1001010 0101010 11010 1101010 1111100 1101011 011111 011111 11111 11111 11011 111 11111 1100111 11101 11011 1101111 111111 110101 111111 11111 11101 11101 111100 110101 110101 111111 110111 110101 110111 11111 110001 110101 1101110 11001 1101110 1111 110110 110101 111000 11111 111010 110111 1101110 110100 11100 111101 110101 110111 110111 110111 11011111 1011 1011110 111111 1110100 100111 1111000 110111 1111100 110011 10111 10111 1111 1111111 11111 11011 111101 110111 1100100 110101 1101010 100100 111101 110101 101111 110011 1110110 111111 1100110 110011 11101111 11101 11111 1111010 111111 1111 111110 11010 1101110 110111 1111110 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 320
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; og, d, til, var, min, du, hans, med, jeg, er are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saa, og, ved, til, der, du, han, med, hun, jeg, som, naar, snart are repeated.

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

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