This is an analysis of the poem Et Tilbagefald that begins with:
En skummel, graa December. Det hvirvler paany
med Sne, som ligner Aske før den falder....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX Xbca XXXX XXXX XXXd aXXa XXXa XXdX XXXa XXXX XabX XXcX eXeX fXfX XfXX ggXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011010 1111011110 111010111111 1100100110 110101011111 11111101 110111010101 11011111 11101111010 110111011 10111011011 0101111110 011011110011 11111111 110111111001 1111111010 1101110110011 110101111 110110111111 111111111 110110110101 1101110101 11011101011 1101010110 110111111110 1111111 100101101111 110111101 01011111001010 11111110 11111010001 11110111010 0101010111111 11111100 11110111110 10111101010 110111110111 1001111010 1101111101 111110110 1100010101 11101101 110111100111 1111111010 1011011111101 1101011110 11010111110 1101111111 11011101110 0111011010 1011111001 11011101110 11011110011 110001111 1101110000111 111111 1110011110110 11111011110 1101111111010 11011101110 110110110111 11101110 110110011101 100111110 1101100111101 11111111 111110111111 111011101 101110011101 110110011 111111110100 110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; r, har, sin, og, hun are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words har, og are repeated.
The author used the same word en at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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