This is an analysis of the poem En Aften I Hjemmet that begins with:

Det flammer i Kaminen
Til Trods for Vintrens Vrede, -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXabXb ccXXcX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXdXX XXXXdX XXXXXX eXXXeX XXXXXX XXXaXa XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100 111101 01111 111100 111110 11111 1110010 110101 100101 110111 1111110 101110 11011 11111 11111 11101 110111 110101 11011 10111 11100 111101 11101 11111 111101 110001 100111 111100 11111 11010 1111010 1011010 1101110 111101 1111010 1111 110111 11101 11011 110111 1011111 10111 111111 11010 111101 111011 10111 11111 111111 110001 111010 111101 11111 110010 111111 11111111 111111 11111 1111111 11111 11110 101101 110111 11111 111101 10011111 11111 1110 11111 111111 11111 11011 111100 110111 111111 111111 1111110 110101 111110 1111011 11111 111101 11110 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; de, d, og are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, da are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, de, mme, nke, iet are repeated).

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