This is an analysis of the poem Erklæring that begins with:
Dæmrende kom Aftnen,
Stærkere slog Brændingen an,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXbXXXX XXbXX XXXXaaXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,5,10,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 11101 111110111 1011 1111110110 1111111101 1010110 1100101 100110 100100 1101011010 11111101 111111110 1011010 1100111 1011100 11011 111001 10011011110 10101111100 11111101 101111 1101 111111110 100100 1011110100 1011010 111100 10110100 111010 11101000 1011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; overalt, i, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, overalt are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dig at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Erklæring;
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