This is an analysis of the poem Hilsen Til Thorvaldsen that begins with:
Vær velkommen, Søn af gamle Norden,
vær velkommen til din Moders Bryst!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaX XXXXX bXbXX XXXXX XXXXX XXcXX XXXXX XXXcX aXaXX XXXXX XXXXX aXXXX cXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 110011110 110011101 101110010 0111110010 1111101 111011 10111001 101011 110111001 10111100 1111111 1111011 110011101 110110 11101101 1110100110 101110101 111110010 1110001110 111000101 11101111 1100111 110010101 11011111 101011100 1101111 11101101 1011111010 1010011110 11011101 11011111 11010011 10100101 1111111 11010111 111011000 1111100 11100111 11011110 111011101 11011010 111111111 111011110 111111010 1010110 110111111 11101111 011010111 11100111 111110 101110101 1111000 11110100 11011100 111010001 001011010 001010100 1110101110 10110101010 111101101 111111010 01101101 111010110 1010111010 11111000
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; v, de, du, d, din, dig are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words v, tak, da, her are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de is repeated).
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