This is an analysis of the poem Havfruen Ved Samsøe that begins with:
Det er sildigt alt paa Aft'nen, Stormen stiger meer og meer,
Bølgen vælter sig mod Kysten, hvor man Fiskerhytten seer....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXXccXXXXXXXdeXXXddXXccee XfgXXcHcXcHiiXXdcc XXXXXXXXbfgeeXXeejjXXddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,18,25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110101010110 1111101110001 1101110110100 1110001111101 111010101011101 100001101110100 1011011011101 11111010111011 1110110110101 11111111011010 111011111111 111110101101 1011110111101 101111011101 111111110110 111110001111101 101011101111 11111111110 111011101111111 1110001101111 1111110111111 111110111001 1011101111111 11111101110110 11110101010001 10110110101111 11101110101111 10110101010111 1 11111111 1110101 1111111 11111101 1101111 1111 111011 11001111 11110111 1111 1101111 1111010 110 1101111100 111101011101 110110110111 11110110111 1 10001011011 110011100111 100101011011 100010100101 01000111101 10111111111 01101101110 1001110111101 11111011111 110111011011 111010110101 11111001011 100101111101 111110110011 11110101101 11111100111101 1111100111111 11011111011 11111111110 11110001101110 11101011111 010001110111 100100100101 11111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1192
- Average number of words per stanza: 217
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der, den, er, gamle, han, jeg, og, skal, af, saa, i, min are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jeg is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines k is repeated).
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- summary of Havfruen Ved Samsøe;
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- idea of the verse;
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