This is an analysis of the poem Det Hvide Hus that begins with:
Jeg staar ved Foden af den gule Skrænt
og stirrer paa det hvide Hus deroppe,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101111 110111110 11110011 100111101 1111000111 1101001101 1101010101 11011111 10111001 110101111101 11011111 1011010101 11110111 1101110001 1101110001 111110011 01111111 011011110 01000111 11011100010 011111101 11001111 1111011111 111100100 1011100101 1011110110 11011011 1110111 110110101 1101110101 101111101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; og, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, du, det are repeated.
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- summary of Det Hvide Hus;
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