This is an analysis of the poem Colleoni that begins with:
I Venezias Smøgelabyrint
staar han høj, staar han stejl...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXa XaX XXX XXX XXa XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX bXb XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001000 111111 11101 101101010 11011011 11010110 1111011 111011110 11001 10011001 011111101 11110 101110100 111011111 110110 101111010 111011011 1110 11011101 11011111 111 11101111 11111110 1101 110110001010 11011110 1110 1110111 11111110 11101 111111010 110011111 111 111111000 1111111 110010 1111011 1111111 111011 11111101 11111111 1111 11001000 111111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 45
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; han, hans, er, da are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, hans, da, i are repeated.
The author used the same word han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Colleoni;
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