This is an analysis of the poem Sommerdag that begins with:
Der laa den Ridder i Græsset og drev.
Hejsa nu sadler vi af!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XbXc Xbaa XXXX ddXX ddXX XXcX XcXX XXXX XXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101111 1011011 111101111 110011011 01011101011 111101101 11011111011 11111111 11011101011 1101101110 111010101 110111101 11111011 1111101 111101111 111101111 1101101101 11011101001 110111011 1101111100 11010101111 11011111111 1101111011 110111111 1101101111 11001111111 11101011011 1101100111 110010110100 11111111100010 1101111011 11011011001 1100101111 1111111001 11011011011 11001011011 11111111 1111101001 1101101001 11011110101 0100101010 111111111 1111101111 1100111111111 11011111111 11111111 11111111 11011111111 111101111100 11011111100 111101101 11001111110 11011111 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hans, han, den, ej, og, i, de, d are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, og are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rst, st, rk, re, r are repeated).
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