This is an analysis of the poem Aftenskyerne that begins with:
Naar Aftnen breder om Jorden sit Slør,
da ligge i Vesten de dejligste Øer;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb cXdd XaXX XXeX XXXc XXeX Xadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011011 111100100 110101101 1001101101 1100011011 111100001 11111111 1010110001 1111101101 111100100 1111110101 1111111101 1111111111 11011011000 1101111011 111110101 1101101001 1111111101 1101101101 1101111001 1111100111 101011111 11011011101 110111111000 1110110011 11100100 111110111 111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; jeg, og are repeated.
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- summary of Aftenskyerne;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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