This is an analysis of the poem To An Old Danish Song-Book that begins with:
Welcome, my old friend,
Welcome to a foreign fireside,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc aded XfXg hcab fXXg ifae jfch Xcac cXkk aacc jhcc agfg afgb aXab acibXbfci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 100010101 10101010 1010 00101 10111001 10101011 1111 11101 11111110 11111110 1011 11111 10111110 10101010 1010 11101 100010010 10100100 0010 11101 10101010 10101110 1010 11101 01100110 10001010 0011 11001 10101010 10111010 1110 11001 11101110 10101010 1110 11101 00101010 10101110 0010 10101 10101110 10101010 1110 111001 10011010 10001010 1010 10001 10101010 10101010 1110 11011 10111110 111111101 1110 11101 01111010 111001110 0110 10111 10011010 10101110 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words welcome, there are repeated.
The author used the same words thou, once at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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