This is an analysis of the poem Aftenvandring that begins with:
Ei den høie Himmelbue
Straaler meer ved gyldne Lue,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXb XcXccX dXXXXX dXXXXe XXXXXX XfXgah dXiXdi XXfgab XXXXcX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXaXe XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXh XXXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 1010111 110101 1011111 111101 110001 11101010 1110110 101100 100101 111001 111100 100111110 111100 100101 11101101 11110 101101 10101010 1011010 1011100 101011 101011 11111 111011 1110101 110011 11011 110101 111101 101011 1011101 101001 1110111 111011 111110 11111010 10111010 111101 11100010 1100110 101101 111100 1011011 10111 0111101 0111101 0111101 1110111 1010110 1000100 110100 11111 1010111 1110100 1110111 111011 1010011 101111 110011 111111 11011 111101 101001 110011 101101 111010 111110 101111 111101 101011 1100100 10101100 11111000 1110100 111011 1010111 1010101 101111 1110001 1010111 1101110 1100110 1010111 11001010 010010 1110101 101111 1011001 1110101 1110101 111111 100100 101111 1011101 1111111 111011 1110101 1110100 011011 10110 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 102
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; er, ei, det, ved are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word er is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lger, ver, der, ved, de are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ved connects the lines.
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- summary of Aftenvandring;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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