This is an analysis of the poem Efteraar that begins with:
Skoven staar i sin fejreste Dragt,
Frugter er komne til Blades Pragt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX aaXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 1001111 10111011 11111011 1001 11011011 10111111 101101101 1011111111 101 10101111 10111101 101111011 1111111011 1011 111111111 1111011010 11110010110 101111010 1001 110111 10111101 1111010111 11111101 10010 1110111 111101101 11101111 1111111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; det, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word l is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word naa't at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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