This is an analysis of the poem Thomas Moore, Eller Venskabs Seier Over Kiærlighed that begins with:

Vee! tretten Gange vee det Øieblik,
Hvori jeg første Gang det Indfald fik,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXaXb XcXdXXXeffXXXX XgXXXXeXgX XXXXbXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXf XagX XXhXXXXXdX XiXeXaXaXgXigjXXejXXjgXXXXXXXXgXXeXXggXXXXXXXjXX XXXXXhXXXfXXgXX hXXh XXXXXXXXXXXjXXXXXXXXXXXXX XgXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXheX XgXcgXgXgaXXXXaXXX XXhX XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXk jk X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,14,10,22,4,10,48,15,4,25,7,7,6,18,4,5,18,6,2,16,9,23,29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110 101111101 11 1101111101 11011110100 11101 11101010 1101111101 111111111 111010111 11111111 110011011 1110101100 1111111 11001101011 1111101010 111101011 1100111101 11001111110 1111111101 11111101 11111011 1111111011 111111111 111111100 11101111101 11011110 1101101111 1111111011110 11111111000 1111111011 11100111110 1111110011 1101111 10001111010 11110111111 111111111 111111100 111111110 1111110 110 1100101100 110111111001 11100100 111000110011 11010011110 11001100 101111011 1111011000 1111110 111111111 111101 111100 110110111 1110100 11110011 1101111111 101101001 111111 1110111000 111111 10011110100 1101101000 111101001 11111101 110011111 110111101 1111010011 11111111 11110110 1101110101 11110011010 111110100 11011101 11111100 111111111 11111110 1111111011 110011111 11101101010 1011110111 11111111 110100100 1001110011 111111110110 111010101101 1110110100 11111111110 11101 11110111111 1111000111010 10010110001 11111001 1001010010 111111111 110111010 111100101 111011100 110100111 11110011 11111100100 111111110 1101010111 1101111110 1111011001 1101110011 11111111 11101110101 11011110101 1101111010 1101101 1101010 110111110100 1110011011 11110111111 1111111111 111111111 100101110110 1110100 1101110110 1111111011 1111110011 1011110 11110111 110011 1101011101 1111 1111101110 1101101110 11111100110 1110010101 11010111 11111010 111010011 1111101 11001101010 111111111010 1110001000 111100110 110100100 11110100 1110100 11011011110 11111 1111100 110101110110 111101111111 110001101 10111111 110111 110011011 11010111 11110111011 11111101 1101111 11110111010 1101110111 11110111 11100011 1101110 101111101 11001110111 1101011101 111101111 11111110 110110110111 1110001 1111111110 1110011101 111011010 110111101 110101111 11100111100 11111111 11011100 1100110111 1101111110 111101111001 111110010110 11010011 110100110 100110001 110001111 11010110001 110010001 1101101 1110111 1111010101 1111001 1001110111 1101111 11111111 111111100 1111111 111111101 11111111111 101010111 11110011010100 111101111 10111101111 1111001111 1101011 1101001111 11101111 111111111 11011011110 111 110110110011 111111101 1111111 1110101101011 1100111101 0011001111 11110110011111 1111111 11101110101 111101111 111111110 111110110 111101001 110111111 111110111 11110111101 1101111100010 11111111 10110100 1111111 11111110110 11011110001 101001110111 110110101 11111110101 111111011 11111011 1101001 110011110 11001110011 1111011111 1110100101 1001000111 11111011011 1011111 110101111 11101111 110111011 111111111 11011101 11111111 11011101100 11111101 1111011 111011111 1101011 110111111 11101111110 10010110110111 1111111 111101111000 1111111100 1100100101 1111110110 1111111110 1010100100 11011001 11111111010 110111110 111110101 1110011 10001 110011111 1111011101 111110101 111 111110101 1011011101 1110111111 111101 111101010 1100100111 111110111 1111111 1111110101 1111101 1101010110 11011011 1101111 1101111000 111011100 1111111110 11111111 111101111 110111110001 110101110 100111001 11111111 11110110100 101111111 110111100 110111100 111111001 11011100110 1111111001 10111111001 1101110011 01101111 1101111110 1101110110 111111 110111101 11111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 494
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 311
  • 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; vee, i, snart, jeg, mod, at, det, og, den, fra, som, var, til, for, mig, min, giv, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, min, at, og, som, tidt, med, den are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, de, re, ge are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase den connects the lines.

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