This is an analysis of the poem Festen Paa Avalun that begins with:

I Sommernatsfest paa Morganas Ø
Jeg hilsed Alfernes Konning....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXX XXXbXXXXX XXaXXXXXX XXXbXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001100 11010010 1101111101 1101110 101101101 1101110 11110110 110110001 1111000 1100111011 111110 1111101001 10010010 101111001 1101110 110111001 010101011 10011010 110111100 11010010 110111101 111110 1110111 1100110 11110110 1101100001 11011000 01011111 110110010 110011101 11010010 101111001 11010110 111111111 11011011 11011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; det, hver are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word det is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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