This is an analysis of the poem Skildvagten that begins with:
Aft'nen er taaget — døsigt Lygterne brænde;
Kun paa sin Støi og sin Larm kan man kjende...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXbcXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXbXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXXb bXXX XXcXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXcXXXX XcXX XXXXXX XXXX dXXXbbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,27,4,15,15,4,6,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101101 1111111111 1110 11010101101 101110111 111101101 111101011101 1100101 101111111 1100011110 11011111 1110111101 1001111101 111111101 1111 1101011110 110010011100 1110111110110 11111111101 11101111 1101 110111101 11111110011 1011010101 111110011 1111010011 11110111 110100010 10010101111 1111101 111011111 1111011101 110111111 111011111 111001111 1111 11001111101 1111111111 1111111110 111110 110111110 1101010110 1101101 111111 110110111 11010111011 110111101 1101111 1101010101 1111111011 1101011111 110111101 111001010111 111111101 110100111 11111111 111110110 111010110 1111110111 110111111 111101011 11111111 1101111001 1110111 111111111 110111 11110111111 11101 11111110111 110101101 111101100100 1111101110 1111111 1101111101 011111011 111111010 111111111 1101110111 110111110 11110 11100111100 11110111110 1111111101 100111011 1111111100 1101110110 11111110 111011110 11111111110 1101111110 10011111 111011101 110111111110 11001111100 11011111 1101011101 11011101100 01010111100 10111011 1101 1100110 1101010111 1111111 11111101111 1011 1110110000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 106
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, og, i, paa, han are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, mme, d, kke are repeated).
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