This is an analysis of the poem Drinks that begins with:

Jeg havde Bourgogne, jeg har det ej mer . . .
Den røde Vin er en født Kavaler,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaa XXXX XXX XXXX XXX XXXX XX XXXX bXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,3,4,3,4,2,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011111 111011100 10101111110 1111 10111 111011111 1101101101 1111111 1101111001 11111111 110001101 111111001 11001111 11110111100 110111111100 111100100 11111111 11001110010 11001110110 11001111110 101011100 110111110 1111111 1101101111 1111011001 11011111 110101100 1111011011 11010110110 110111010 1101100111 111111111 11111011100 1111 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; re, den, jeg, og are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word men is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, sker, nder are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Drinks;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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