This is an analysis of the poem Hvor Finder Jeg Glemselens Lethe? that begins with:

Hvor finder jeg Glemselens Lethe?
Jeg drømmer om mine Løver:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX aaa XXX XXX XXX XXX Xbb XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011001 11111 01111 1100011 111101 1010001 11111011 11011110 101011 0101110 1110010 010100010 110111010 11101 111111 110110 101010 11001110 1101111 11110 1101111 101111 11111 111001 0111101 1101111 110100 11000 110010 10011110 111110 1100111 010111 1101001 11111111 11111101 1111011 111000 1101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, og are repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 ver, rke are repeated).

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