This is an analysis of the poem Silhouetter Af En Præstefamilie that begins with:
I høie Hvedebølger, imellem Rug og Byg,
Der krummer et Straatag sin mossede Ryg;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX bbXX XXXX ccdd eXXX aXXX XeXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100100111 1101101101 11111011110 11101111101 11011110110 11111011001 10001101101 11011101111 1101111111 10111111001 1111111000 1101111100 111110101 1011111000 1111111 111111111111 1111010011 1111101100 11010110111111 1011111001 11001111111 10001110000 11011111111 110111010011 1110011111 111011111 1111011110 1110011111 11011110110 11100110001 11011101110 11111011111 11001111101 1111111001 111101111 111010111111 11011011110 11011111010 11111011010 1101011110 1111001111 11011011010 1101111011 11011110011 11011111011 01111111 110111111101 1111100001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er, du, hun, og, sin, den, i, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, hvad are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines st is repeated).
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