This is an analysis of the poem Aften Paa Kullen that begins with:

Det gamle Nord med sine Graastens-Kyster,
Rovfuglereder, Fribytterlyster....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XX XXaa XX XXXX XX XXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111010 1000010000 101101 111110001 1101011010 1101101010 1001111 10011011 10111111 1010111 1101111100 111111011 011100110 110111101 110111101 1111011011 010111101 1101110011 110011111 11011101 111101011 111110101 110011011 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same word her 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 rdet is repeated).

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  • summary of Aften Paa Kullen;
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