This is an analysis of the poem Festrøg [saa Hvide Bølger I Nattens Mørke] that begins with:
Saa hvide bølger i Nattens Mørke
de tætte Dampe,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 011 11011100101 111 0101011110 11111 11111000 0111 010101111 1111 11111111010 111 11000010010 1100 1110110110 11101 110100010 01100 11101110 1011 11111101 0110 0111110010 110010 0110011 1111 1111110 11011 11010111010 1111 1110111101 1111 111011 111 0111011010 101 0111110110 1101 1101111100011 111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; og, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og 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.
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- idea of the verse;
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