This is an analysis of the poem Aften-Gjøgen that begins with:
O, du min Barndoms glade Fugl,
saa hører jeg dig atter!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX aXaaX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 111110 11010111 11011111 1101110 1101111111 01100 1110111 11111111 11111 1101011 110110 1111110 1111100 1111010 111100 11011 1100111 110110 11001 1101110 11101 1111010 111110 110101 1101011 0101110 1111101 1101111 1111110 111011 1111010 111110 11011101 110110 1110111 110010 11111110 1101101 1101010 11011101 111110 1111100 1101100 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; d, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is 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 d, ' are repeated).
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