This is an analysis of the poem Kong Kristian Den Ottende that begins with:

Hiin stille Sommeraftenstund
Gaaer som en Aand forbi,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXX XbXXb XXXXX XXXXX caXXc XXXXX XXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110000 111110 11111101 100111000 111100 1101111 111110 11010011 11011101 110111 1101111 111111 1111100 10011101 111010 10111111 110011 111111 11110101 11111 10110011 101101 11011101 10010011 11011 11010111 11111 01011100 1111011 110111 11001101 111101 0111101 100110010 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, n are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

    The author used the same word det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n is repeated).

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