This is an analysis of the poem Skærsommer that begins with:
Saa er den lyse Nat forbi,
saa skiltes vi,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 1101 1011 110111011 11010101 111 1101 11111 11110011 1110 1101 11011111 11010011 1111 1101 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; og is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saa, og are repeated.
The author used the same word og 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 is repeated).
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