This is an analysis of the poem Den Sidste Parade that begins with:

De sad — hvad Søfolk har Lov til at gøre,
Naar Farten er endt og Faren er omme -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX aXXXbbbXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXccX XXaX XXXXXXXbXX XXXXXXXa XXXaXXbXXaXXaX aaaXXXXXX XXXXaXXXaaaX XXXXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,11,7,4,10,8,14,9,12,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111111 1100111001 1101101 01101 011111010 11011011110 0111101000 11101100 11111111 111111111 1110010 11001101 1101111111 011010001 1101101101 1111000 111111101 01101011011 10111100 01111100 1100111111 11001111 1101111 1100111111 1101111101 1111111 111011011 111111001 110111011 100111 0111101 11011111 010111001 1101100 011110101 110111011 11001111 11110011 11010111 11111111 111111 1100111 11101111 011111111 11011010 111111011 100101100 11011010 10011111 111001001 1111111 11110110 110011111 11011111 1101111111 1001111 11111101 11111111 10001011011 11011111 110111110 111101110 110110111 111101111 111111111 11110110011 1101101101 110011101001 100111101 101101111 1110111111 1111011111 101101 1001111 1110101111 1111111 1111101 111001 01110111 111111001 111111 1011110000 101011100 111001011 10110111 1011011 01011011101 101001001 1101111011 11111111 101011001 10101011111 1111111 100010111 11111111 11111101 101111010 100111110 10101111 1111111 1101101111 11111 111101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; de, og, en, d, var, i, er, saa, vi are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, i, og are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).

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  • summary of Den Sidste Parade;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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