This is an analysis of the poem Kølvand that begins with:
Naar fra Havstokken ud paa det vigende Blaa
For en Kuling, en passende frisk,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXXXX bXbbXbXXX XXXcXXXXXXXXXXXX XdXXdXXXX ceXceXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,16,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111101 11101101 10111011001 11111101101 10100101 11111101011 111101 111101 1011011 11011011011 11101101 111111011 111001111 1010101 11101101111 1101101 111010110 111101 111001 1111 10111111 11111 1110 11100101101 11101111011 11111000 11101 1111 1111010010 11110101 11111100 110101101 1011001 1111011110 10101110011 11111101 01111010111 11101101111 110111001 0111111101 1111101 11100111 11101 1101101101 1101101 1110101101 1011111111 111011011 11101100110 1111101 1111110 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 514
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, det, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, og are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word lge at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase der connects the lines.
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