This is an analysis of the poem Ved Asalis Grav that begins with:

Alle de voksende Skygger
Har vævet sig sammen til en,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXa XaXXXbXX XXXXXXXX XbXXXXXX XcXcXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010 1111011 10110010 111101 11111 10011101 1001000 10110 1001110 0101001 10100110 110100 100010111 100101101 101011 11101 101111 10011011 11110110 1101011 11111101 11100111 11101 1101 10110110 0111001 1111001 1100101 1011111010 1001011000 111101 1001 11110 1101111 111011 1111011 111111111 1110110 101101 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; som is repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mme, ve are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word savne at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Ved Asalis Grav;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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