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

Hvor ofte er jeg vandret til din Grav,
I Krogen hist bag Kirken, flad og lav;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXaXX XXbbXX XXXXXX bbXXXX aXXXcc XXXXdX XdXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110110111 1101110111 1101011101 1101111111 0101011101 1101110100 111111110 100100011 110101001 111101111 11111111 1110011100 111100111 110101111 110110111 1111110101 110110100 1101110100 11111111101 110111111 1111110100 1011111 11011111 1101101111 111111101 110011101 1101010111 110100111 0101111111 0111010111 110101111 1111111001 1011111110 11101111 11111101 1111101 11111111 111110010 1111110111 111110101 11111111 11010110 11010110 110111101 1101101111 1111011101 11111101 110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; det, d are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word hvor 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 r, d are repeated).

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  • summary of Evalds Grav;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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