En Sommeraften Silde by Carl Ploug: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem En Sommeraften Silde that begins with:

En Sommeraften silde paa hviden Strand hun sad;
Det var saa tyst og stille, der rørtes ej et Blad,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX XXX XXX aaX aXX XXX XXX bbX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001110111 11111111111 110111110111 1011011011 11111111101 11110101110 11101111101 110111011011 1111010011 111101110101 111111111 111010111101 110101101111 11111011011 110101111110 11111010101 1111010111 1111010111101 11010111111 11010111011111 110101110101 1101111011 111110111110 11111101111 111110101101 111100111110 11011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hun, og are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).

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  • history of its creation;
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