This is an analysis of the poem Juleaften that begins with:
Og Far gaar rundt paa Loen
og ryster Halm og Havrestraa,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXX XbXXXXX XXXXXXX cXXXXXX XXXXdXX cXXXeXe XaXafXf XXXbXXb XbXXXXX XXXXbXX XdXXXXX XXXbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 11011100 11111 11111 11011101 1101110 101101 1101110 1111101 1101110 1110 11000001 01101 1111 1111110 11011101 111000 11011 1101111 11111 1111 1111110 111101 111110 110101 1100011 110111 11011 1111110 1101111 1010110 110011 1111101 101110 110110 110110 11011100 1101010 111111 11111101 101000 110001 101010 1101111 1101010 111101 11010001 110100 110111 11111 10011100 110101 11011 0101111 110111 10011 1101110 11000111 1101010 110101 1101111 1111 010110 11110 1111101 111111 101101 11010101 1101110 110100 1111 111101111 11011 100101 1101111 1111010 11001 111010 11011111 1100110 110111 111111 1101110 11100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same words og, saa at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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