This is an analysis of the poem Ved Stranden that begins with:
Ensom i Aftenens dæmrende Stund
hviler jeg her paa Skrænten ved Skoven;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXX XXXXbXbX XXXXXXXX XXXXXcXc bcXcdXdX abXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011 101011110 10111101 111010100 100101010 1110111011 1111110 1110111 1011011011 1011110001 1111101 111101 1011011011 11111110110 0100010011 10110011 101010111 1111001 10101001 111011011 10111010 1001101001 11111011 111001111 0111111 1011011110 11110011 1111110110 1011111 1011011010 10100111 11101010 100111101 10111110 1001011001 111111010 101100101 11100111101 100101101 111111110 111100101 01111111110 101111101 111111010 1011111111 1111111110011 11101111 111101 11111011 111111110 11011011 111110110 10111111101 11111110100 11101101 111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; saa, jeg, af, hvor, det, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
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