This is an analysis of the poem Smiil, Venskab! Til Vort Samfund Ned that begins with:
Smiil, Venskab! til vort Samfund ned,
og fyld os med din Salighed!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa bbXX ccXX aXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11111100 1101111 101111 10011111 111110 1101111 01011101 11100101 11010100 110101 0101011 11011101 1101101 1111011 11011101 11011101 0101111 11010101 11010101 10111101 1111111 11010111 01010111 11110111 11111100 1111101 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hver, og are repeated.
The author used the same word naar 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 d is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word d at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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