This is an analysis of the poem Venus Fra Milo that begins with:

Der er graat og mørkt paa Louvre,
Regnvejr ude, raakoldt inde;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcX XXXXXXXXXd XbXXX XbXX XXXX eXXX fXfX XXbX XXXX eX X XXXXXXX cdcXXXX XXXX XX X cXXXX gXeX XXXX XXdX bXXX XXXX XXcX fXfX XXhX XXXX XiXi XgXX XaXX hXXe XXXX gXgX Xgjg XXXa cXjX XXXX XXXX gXXX XXXX gXXX XXXe gXgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,1,7,7,4,2,1,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111110 101101 10111 111111110 111011 1100100 11101010 111110 10110 111010 111101 100 1100100 10111110 11001000 10111 10101010 111110 1101111 101111 11101110 10101110 11011010 1111111 1111110 11110111 111110 110101101 1111110 1111011 01110 11011111 1111001 11111011 110111 111101101 111110 10101110 10100110 1010110 111111 1111110 101111 1110110 1011100 1010111 11101 10110 11110 111110 11111 1111 11011 1111100 1110110 1000101 111101 1111101 11110 1011110 111111 111101 111110 110111 11111111 111111 11101110 111 1110110 11101101 11101110 111100 11111 110100 110111 11111 1111 111 11100 1111 11110 1111 11111 11111 1111 11001 11000 110001 11111 11011 111010 11110 111110 110110 11011 1111 1111 111011 10111111 11001 111011 1111010 1110111 1101111 11101011 11111 11011101 1101110 111110111 1101111 11001111 11111001 11011101 1101111 1101111 11011111 1101111 11011101 11011101 1111101 110111 1100101 11011101 11110111 11011110 111011 111111 11110111 111011 10001011 11011111 011111 101111 101101 00111111 1111011 111111 1111011 01111101 11111 1111101 111111 110111 1101110 011111111 1111110 1111101110111 111010111 1111000 111000111 111111110 111011101 110101 110010101 1101100111111 10110111110 10110 1101111110 11110111001 110011101 110110 0011001110 101101111 1101101 1111111010 110111 110101111 1111010 11111000 10111 111101111 010101 101101101 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 182
  • 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; som, ser, en, og, dig, du, din, fordi, min, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, af, og, en, jeg, hvor, din, nu, fordi are repeated.

    The author used the same words jeg, og, du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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