Poem Analysis of Adria by Holger Drachmann for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Adria that begins with:

Farvel Du Hav, som Horats besang,
Og kaldte saa grusom, barbarisk og andet -...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXaXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXaX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 100111010 11110100110 110101000 11110101 11101110 110111011 11110001 11011011001 11011111 11111 110011111 11101011100 111111100 11111111 110100100 1111111000 1101001010 11011101 110111101 111100010 111111101 110110110 11011010010 1101101111 1100110 100111 1100100100 110111011 110110100 11110110 010111001 110010111 1101111010 11011011001 11100 100011111 10001111110 0111111111 11011111 101001010 110111111 110111111101 1101110111 1101111111 11111011
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
Average number of words per stanza: 36
Amount of lines: 45
Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; en, du, jeg, tager are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, som, erindrer, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same word vi at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Adria by Holger Drachmann: poem analysis

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