This is an analysis of the poem De To Øxer that begins with:
Det sidste Dagslys taber sig i Nat,
Den blege Dæmring dybt i Vesten svinder,...
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbabXX XXXXcXXX XbXXXXXb XXXXXXXX XXXXdXXX XcXXXcXb XbdbXXXX XXXXXeXX XXXXcfdd ebeXeXXX XXcXXXXX XXXXXXbX XfXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXcbcXXX XbXXXbbX XXgXgXXX XbXbXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111 111111010 11101110 1101001110 110011101 1101101010 11011111010 11011111 11101101 111110001 11111101 11111011 1101011101 11111011 1101011101 1101111 111111101 1101111010 110101011 111010101 110111111 1111011111 101111010110 1110111110 111001101 10010011100 1011111101 1001011110 111011101 1111111110 1111011111 11110111010 1101010111 1111010111 111111011 110100111 111111101 1101111110 11001111 11011111010 11111111 1111111 1111011 111011100 111011101 111110101 1110111010 0110111010 111101101 11010111010 11101101 101111110 1101011101 1010111010 11110101 111011101 111100101 11101011 101110101 1101111 111010101 101000101 10110111010 110111110 111100111 110101101 11011111 11111011 111101101 111110101 111111101 1101010101 1101010011 101110110 1111010101 1110111100 110101111 1101111010 1101010101 110101101 101101011 101111111 1101111001 111110101 1100100101 110111011 11111111 110111111 100111101 11101011 111101111 110110111 110101111 111101101 11010101110 11011101010 11101111 110111011 0111101 1111111111 111111111 11010110111 011011101 1101110111 111111111 110101111 110111101 11011111 11111111 1001011101 111111100 11010111010 111110111 11101111 1111011101 11011100010 101011101 1111111010 111111011 1101001111 111110111 1111111010 11111101 11011111110 1101000111 111111010 11011101010 11110101100 111111101 1110011110 1111011001 110110101 110110100 1100111101 1101011100 11111111 1111110010 11110111010 110101111 1111010110 11111010110 11010111010 110001111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 144
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, jeg, i, ved, de, han, og, med 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 ber, nger, ver, re, den are repeated).
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