This is an analysis of the poem Gallion that begins with:
Naturligt! — De ønsked saa gerne,
At Farten blev Skipperen god;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXX aXXXXXaXXa XXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000111 11011001 11111 010101 1101110 111110 11011110 1111110 11111111 1101101 111111110 11011 11001111 1101111 1101 110110 11110 1101011 111110 11111 111111 111011 111101101 111111010 1111 11111 1011011 101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word naar is repeated.
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