This is an analysis of the poem Aften that begins with:
Stille, Hjærte, Sol gaar ned,
Sol gaar ned paa Heden, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXA XXXXA bXbXA XXXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 111110 1111101 101110 11111 1010100 1111 1100100 111 11111 1011101 101000 1110101 101010 11111 11010 10111 100100 10100 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; gaar is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ned at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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