This is an analysis of the poem En Aften-Psalme that begins with:
Siung hierte, siung en aften-sang
Om den der elsker dig,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabbcXXbXXXXXXXXXX XXXXddXcXcXXaaXXeeXX XXXXXbXXXXXXfXXXXXXX XXXXXaXfXXXXXXXaffXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,20,20,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 111101 11011 111111 1111 11101 111 111 111111 101 100 111101 11111 11111 111101 110 110000 11110 111101 11111 1101111 11011 11111 1101111 11011 01111 01111 11 101011 11111 101 111101 111101 011111 110101 1101 11111 11101 11101 1101 11111101 110011 111101 1111101 110100 11101 111 101 101011 11 111 101111 1111 01111 11111 111 111100 110111 11111 11111 111111 11011 111111 1101111 111110 111001 111 011 111011 101 101 1111101 110110 101110 11011 1111 11011 110101 11101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- 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; jeg, d, til are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words er, og, der, til are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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