This is an analysis of the poem Længsel Efter Neapel that begins with:
I Dag brænder jeg efter Neapel,
det brede, paa Vulkaner fra umindelige Tider myldrende...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XaXXXbXa XXXX bXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,21,8,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 111100110001010 11010 1010110 1110110010 1100011 11101010 111000010 111010010101 11101001110 1101111110 1100110001110 1101101100 111011110 11011000110 1101100 110110011010 11100110 11110101100 111000010 111111001 1111110111100 11011011101100 1110001011000 11111101110 01100100 110001010000 11000010 10101001100 111010 1110011010 1111110 111110110010 10001100010 1101110010 1101111 110011010 11110011010011 110100100 11100011110 111001111001000 1101010 1101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, hvor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words har, hvor, og are repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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