This is an analysis of the poem Venedig that begins with:

Man kommer til Venedig ad en Jærnbanebro
— en By i Lagunen, som aldrig gaar til Ro....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa bb aX bX XX CC XX XD eX XF XX XX XX CC aa gg XX XX XXX XX d eh XX hX ii eX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XX XD XF XXX Xhh eX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,4,4,4,4,2,2,2,3,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110011100 111100110111 11010101101 11010111 11010111001 1011110111 10010011101 1101010111 101111111011 10111101100110 111100111111 1100010101010 1110111111 11111110111 11111011111 11111101101 1111111111 10100101111 1101110111 11110111001 11011110011 1101111111 1111110101 11111111010 1101101111 11101010100 111100111111 1100010101010 1110011010111 110111101001 111101100111 101101111111 11011111101 101000101011 11100011101 11100101101 111000111010 11001101110 111110111100 11011111111 101110110111 10010101111 01010101111 110101110011 11011011011 11110111111 11011111111 111111111 1101110110001 11010101101 11010011111 101000001111 11111001110 1111101010 1101111110 1000110010 11111001110 11011011 1010111101 111111110 100011011 100110001 111111001 10110110 111101110 11101111 110010111 11111100 1100110110101 101011111010 111111111 11111101101 1111101100 11110111001 0111101111110 1101110111110 111111101000 11111111111 11111110111 1001111111111 11011111101 111010101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 44
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, de, har, man, og, vil, sig, som, der, jeg are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words man, det, jeg 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 st, l, le are repeated).

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  • summary of Venedig;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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