This is an analysis of the poem See, Vintersolen Bleg Og Mat that begins with:

See, Vintersolen bleg og mat
Bag Skyen daler ned;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab XXXX cXcX XXXX XaXa XXXX dXdX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000111 11101 1101111 110101 11010110 11011 11010111 110111 10111001 11111 1101111 010111 10111011 110111 1001111100 110111 10010101 111111 0101111 111111 1101111 111111 1100100 100111 1101101 110110 10111110 101101 1111011 110111 1011111 11011 1111111 111011 1101011 1111111 111111100 111111 11001101 0111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same word hun 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 is repeated).

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  • summary of See, Vintersolen Bleg Og Mat;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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