This is an analysis of the poem Herman Bang that begins with:
I Døvstumgaden i Paris
dér laa et lille perlemalt...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXa XbXaXa XXcXbX XdXXXd XeXXXX XXXXfX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXdX gXXgXX XXbXgX fbXXHX XbXeHX XXbXXX XcXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110 10111100 01111101 1111100 11111111 1100110 10110100 111001 0101110 1101101 1111111 11111111 111100 11110111 1110011 1101111 1001011 10010111 1111111 1111111 1110111 11111010 1111111 111111 11110001 1111101 11000100 1101101 11010010 1101100 11111111 1100110 111101 1110010 11010101 111100 1111100 1111100 11011101 11010100 11111111 1110 11001100 11111101 1110111 111111 1100110 1111111 11100110 11110111 111111 1101111 1111101 11111101 1111011 1111000 11001110 11111110 01101010 1111010 11111101 11110110 1111001 11111101 11110101 110111 11100001 1101111 111111 111100 1011110 11000 01100101 11001110 11010101 1110111 1011110 110000 11111111 10110100 1110001 1100100 11110111 111011 11011111 1111111 1111111 11111101 10101100 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 90
- 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; og, saa, var, en, han, af, v are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, og, han, en are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines v is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word heliogabal at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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