This is an analysis of the poem Festrøg [saa Hvide Bølger I Nattens Mørke De Tætte Dampe] that begins with:
Saa hvide bølger i Nattens Mørke de tætte Dampe,
der slippes ud fra Maskinen — bestraalt af en blændende Lampe....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX aa XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111101011 11011100101111 010101111011111 111110000111 0101011111111 11111111010111 110000100101100 111011011011101 11010001001100 111011101011 111111010110 0111110010110010 01100111111 111111011011 110101110101111 11101111011111 111011111 0111011010101 01111101101101 1101111100011111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, i, og, som are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
The author used the same word du 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 de, rtet, nding are repeated).
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- summary of Festrøg [saa Hvide Bølger I Nattens Mørke De Tætte Dampe];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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