This is an analysis of the poem Høstvise that begins with:
Nu er Sæden lang og gul,
tung i Top og strunk i Straa,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbb XcXdeX dXdXXX XXdfXc fXaXXX XggbXX XXXXXX eXdXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 1111111 1111001110 111110 1110111 111011110101 1110111 111101 1111111111 111011 1010001 111101011101 110111 1111011111 1111111111 111110 1110111 11111100111 1010101 1111110 11110101111 11111 101110 1010101010111 1010101 1010101 1110111011011 1011111 101111 1010101111101 1110111 111111 111011101111 1000111 1110100 111110101110 111111 101111 11101011101 1110111 100111 11101111111 1110101 10111 111100011111 111111 1010101 11101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; og, vi, r, et, saa are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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- summary of Høstvise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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