This is an analysis of the poem Solnedgang [den Store Stjerne Sænker Sig Mod Havet] that begins with:
Den store Stjerne sænker sig mod Havet.
Og — som en Trøst for alt, hvad Dagens Klarhed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaX XXXXXXXXXXX XXbXXXXXcX XXXXXXX cbXXXXcX XXcaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,10,7,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 11111111010 111011110 1011110111 10101111010 111111100 0110011 110100010 1101010001 100111010 11101110 11111101 10011100 101011000 101101010 1111110110 10111101 111001111 111011100 110101111 1111111 1001111110 111101110 101111010 110101011 1111110110 1101011110 0101111101 1100010101 110110101 1101011100 1001010111 1011110 100110000 1111100110 10111011 010101011 01010011010 1110110010 1110101100 110111111 01111101 1101111 110101111 11101111 11111010 110111011 11010111 1111110 1111010101 1111000111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; og, i are repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ngsler is repeated).
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- summary of Solnedgang [den Store Stjerne Sænker Sig Mod Havet];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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