This is an analysis of the poem Naar Man Saa Godt Som Hver En Aften Maa that begins with:

Naar man saa godt som hver en Aften maa
Erkjende glad, at ædle Hjerter slaae,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111101 10111101 11111010 11111110 11111110 111101111 011111111 11011100 11010011110 1011011111 1111001111 1011111111 1111100010 1100110101 110011111 1111111 110001011 11111111 110111100 11111100 100101100 1101110100 1111111 111111111101 1011001111 1101101110 100111111111 100101011 111111111 100101111 110111011 111010101 1101111101 11111110 1111011110 1111111000 101101011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1445
  • Average number of words per stanza: 275
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; man, det are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).

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  • summary of Naar Man Saa Godt Som Hver En Aften Maa;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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