This is an analysis of the poem Henriette Wulff that begins with:
I det brændende Skib, paa det rullende Hav,
I Rædsler, som ei vi udholde at høre,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXA XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111101 111111011 101101101011 1011011011 010101011 111010110110 110110111 01110111110 011111001 1110111011 0110111011 111111111 11111101 110100111 111100101 11001101111 1011011001 01110111110 11011111001 1111101110 111101101 11001011111 11011011011 1000101101 111111101 111111011 101101101011 1011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; har, du, i, mig, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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