This is an analysis of the poem At Sige Verden Ret Farvel that begins with:
At sige Verden ret Farvel,
I Livets Gry og Livets Kveld...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XXXXXX XXXbXX XXXXXX bXccXc XXaXXX XXXXXX XadXXd XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 11011101 01111 1110011 11010111 111001 11111111 11011101 11011 111111 11010111 101101 11010101 0101111 0111000 11011100 1111111 1100100 11011011 01110100 111100 11111111 1111110 111111 110110 1111110 1110110 10111101 111111 1111110 1111100 1111101 111111 11111111 11111110 11111 11011111 01111011 010111 11101101 1101111 11111 1111111 1111101 111111 11101100 11011111 1111 1111101 11100111 100101 1011111 11011101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, og are repeated.
The author used the same words o, kom at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines l, d are repeated).
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