This is an analysis of the poem Aftenen that begins with:
Vi sad paa Skræntet saa blødt i Græs
Og saae paa det brede Vand. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX XbXb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111111 1111111 11111111 01101101 1111001 11110111 1001101 11001111 1101001 1110101 11001010 1110111 1111001 0101111 110010 1110011 1101101 111111101 1110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, en, til are repeated.
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- summary of Aftenen;
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- idea of the verse;
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