This is an analysis of the poem Aftenhöitid that begins with:

Solen daler, Natten aander Taage
Ud fra Östen over Vang og Vig;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX bXXX Xcdc XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XbXX XdXX XXXX XXde eXXX dXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010101 11110111 1010111 111010101 1101101 1111011 111010111 11010010 111011101 101111111 1100111 10110101 100111010 11010111 110111010 101011101 111010001 10110100 10100101 11100100 101101100 111110 10101000 111010111 101011101 1110101 11000011 11110001 111011110 11101101 111011110 01001110 101111101 01101101 111111111 100110100 101011110 110010100 1011111100 1011111111 11110101 11111111101 111011001 1111011 1110100 111011000 1001101010 11000101 111011101 1111000 111011101 11111110 10110110 11011011 100111010 11011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; hvad, mig, i are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Aftenhöitid;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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