This is an analysis of the poem Elefanten that begins with:
Den var bragt over Sø og salten Vand
fra en Havn et Sted i Levanten....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXbX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XaXXa bXXXX XXaXX cXccX XXXXX cXccX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011101 111111100 1100111011 11010111 110011100 11011111 101110110 1010111 111111110 11110110 11111111 1101110 010001111 111111101 111010110 1110111 11001101 11110111 11110110 1100100 111100111 1101111 11011101 10001011 1110111 1101111000 11011000 11100010001 101101110 11111011 10111100 1111110 101111111 1111101 11001110 11101101 1011111 1011111 11001 10110110 10111100 11010110 111111111 1110111111 1101110 110101111 011100 110111101 0101110101 1101010 111101111 1110111110 11011011 1110001001 110011100 111111001 1111011 1100111111 11111110 1111011 111111111 101011100 111101100 111111110 1111011 110110011 1111010 110001111 1111101 1110111 11110111 11011101 111101111 1111111 0111011 11101111 1111110 11111101 1111100 111110110 1110001101 11010110 11011111 11011111 11001110 1110111101 0111111 111101101 10101100 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, r, en, de, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word den is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, t are repeated).
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- summary of Elefanten;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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