This is an analysis of the poem St. Hans Aften that begins with:
I Skoven tæt ved Gurve,
I Ly af Bøg og Eeg,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 111111 1101110 111111 11101 110101 1011 111101 10101 11011 1011010 110111 01010 111 11101 110111 1011000 10111 1111 100111 111111 110101 111010 11001 1111110 110101 011 111111 1010110 111011 111010 111101 111100 110111 110111 11011 11011 111111 11101 111111 1111100 110110 100011 11010 111101 110111 11110 110110 111101 10111 110011 1111 110010 11001 10011 111 11111 11011 11011 11001 011000 111101 11011 11101 111110 01110 1101110 11011 11011 10111 111100 11001 1111 1111001 11010 111101 111110 1111 11011101 111001 111000 111101 101111 110010 1111110 11011 11010 1111 1101110 110101 101011 111101 100111 1011010 1110110 011101 111101 010101 111110 110001 1100110 110001 110100 111110 1101100 11011 1101110 110101 111110 11101 1101110 101001 1100101 11101 111110 101010 11010 11011 111111 1111 111101 11101 110111 110101 111111 11100 11111 11001 11111 11101 110111 1111 111111 110110 110100 110100 1111 11111 111111 1010100 1001110 110110 110110 110111 110111 110111 110111 1111110 1111110 111110 111110 1101111 11101 111100 111111 110111 11011 110111 11010 110111 111110 110111 1101010 111100 11101 11101 10101 101 110111 111100 110111 111101 111111 11111 110101 101111 11111 111001 01101 110101 111101 11011 1101110 111111 11111 110101 11010 101100 1111110 110111 11011 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 192
- 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, da, de, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, med, da, og, hun, langt, der are repeated.
The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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