This is an analysis of the poem Ellehöien that begins with:
Paa hede Dag den svale Aften fulgte,
der glimted Purpur bag de sorte Grene,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX aXX XXX XaX XXX XXX XXb XXb XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 110101011 11010011100 1101110101 11101101 1100011110 1111111100 11101000 11101111 11011101000 1111101 110101101 110110111 1100011100 1111111 1111111101 1111111101 1111111 1111011111 110111010 11111111 111110011 1111011000 1101101 111101111 11000111000 11110101011 11011001 110111111 110111111 1001001101 11010111 110111100 111111 110111111 110101111 11101010 11011101 11111100 1111110111 110111101 111111110 1111111101 11111010 1111111110 111111110 11111110 1100110100 010100111 01101010 1110011010 1110110100 10011101101 1001100100 111110110 111101111111 111111101 111010001 1100110010 1111110 0111110 1111110110 01111111 11110011100 110111101 110111110 11111111 111111101 1101110100 11111111 1101000111 1111101101 111111111 11101100 11010011 1111111 11111010 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, h, f are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, og are repeated.
The author used the same word da 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 lger is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ellehöien;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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