This is an analysis of the poem Den Gamle Havn that begins with:
Loddet er kastet. Vi sætter vor Baad
sindig med Kurs over Havet...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XbXb aXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101111 10111010 1111010001 11011100 1111101 1101010 101101110 10110010 11111 0110011 110111101 10111 1010110 11011100 1101111 110111110 1101101 111111 10000111 1011011 11101100 1111010 10111010 11110100 10110111 11001010 1010111 11001010 1010110 1111010 11111 11010110 10101101 01011010 11110100 111110 1001111 1101101 10111011 1011001 11111101 110110110 101101101 1111000 1011111 11011001 10001100 10110 100011011 110101 1101111111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; og is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word snart is repeated.
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- summary of Den Gamle Havn;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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