This is an analysis of the poem Herverts Død that begins with:
Det var en herlig Sommernat
Med Efterskjær af Solens Glands,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXab cXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XdXd XaXX dada XXXX XXXe XbXX XXXX XXXX fXfa XcXc XXXX XcXc fXXX feXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 1101101 1101100 1101111 111111 1100011 1100111 11011111 11111001 101111 111011101 111011 111101 110011101 1011101 1101111 111000110 11111001 101111110 1111111 101110110 111011 111010011 11101011 10111101 110111 111011011 111010111 10111111 10111111 101110011 101110010 11111011 11111111 11101111 10101101 10011011 11111111 11111011 1111011 10111011 1000101 10011011 1110101 111111 11110101 111110 10111111 11111101 1110111111 111110001 11111010 10101111 1111110 1111011 11111100 100011100 101110111 111011100 1110011 11010010 10111101 101110 111110111 1111100 10111001 11011011 1111101 11011111 100110 1101111 1101101 11111110 100010111 1001110 101010011 111001110 101010111 111011110 1111001 111111010 1110101 111011010 11011111 11111 11111101 111111100 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; og, med, atter, han, hans, fra are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words med, atter, i are repeated.
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- summary of Herverts Død;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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