This is an analysis of the poem Løven I Slippen that begins with:
En Gang — ja, det er nu langt tilbage,
i de saakaldte gode gamle Dage ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX aX XX Xb cX dd XX ee XX bX XX Xe XX Xc XX XX XX aX XX XX XX Xa XX Xb XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101110 1010111 110001111 110110001 111010100 11101100 1111111 10010100 110111110 111101000 110101111 11111110 11100011011 1011011011 111111100 1001011011 1111001101 11101111 1111001 1100111010 11001100 1110110000 110111101 11111100100 11111110 10110111110 10011110 1110111111 11110111 1110110101 1110011111 1111111111 11110110 111111000 11011011001 0110111 1110111010 100101100 1011101101 10010101 111111000 10101110 11100100 1101101001001 1111110110 101111110 1011111 111011110 111101100 1001001110 11101100 111111111 110111110 111111000 100111111 11101111 10110111100 11000111100 1101010 11110111 10111101110 11001010100 11010111 0110111 101011000 011101101 10001111 11111111 111111 10011101 1111101 11111001 11111000 110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 37
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, en, det, den are repeated.
The author used the same word det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rket, ste, r, mme are repeated).
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