This is an analysis of the poem Den Estiske Sangers Qvad that begins with:
Hvergang sig Solen sænker
Mod Nattens dunkle Hjem,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXaXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXbXX XXXXacXc XXXXXXXX XXXXXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 110101 1011010 110101 111100 110101 110110 110111 100110 10111 111110 110011 1101101 11011 11110 1101101 101101 101101 11110100 111111 111110 01011 110110 11110 101110 10111 111110 110011 111110 110101 100110 11110 10110 011001 11011010 1110 111000 101111 110110 101101 11010011 111001 1101100 110101 110110 111011 1010101 011111 11011010 1101111 1101100 101111 11011010 1101101 1101101100 1101110 1101101 110101 11011000 111111 1101101 110001 1101111 11100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; han, den are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, og, den, saa, da are repeated.
The author used the same word da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.
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