This is an analysis of the poem Til Seline [før, Naar I Venskabs Ruus Kritikens Pligter] that begins with:
Før, naar i Venskabs Ruus Kritikens Pligter
Forglemtes af min elskende Qvintil;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX XbXX XcXc XbXX XXXd XXXX XXXX XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110010 100111010 11110110 1101111101 1111011101 11100111 1111110001 11110111101 11111100 11001101 1111101 11111101 111111010 11101011 11111011 111111110010 1111101110 1111111101 110111010 1111011 1111011101 1111101101 100101101 110111011 111110010 11111001100 111010100 1101111 111101111 11010111 11111111 111101101 1111101100 110110010 1111000001100 1101110101 1010111 11111101 111101111 1110011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, saa, det are repeated.
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