This is an analysis of the poem Taage Og Regndage that begins with:

Aah Høst og Vaar og Vintre, I dunkle Døgn, som sove
bestænkede med Skarn, jeg vil jer prise og love,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX Xaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111111110111 1011111111 11111111111101 11101111 1111111111 11011100111 11111001100 11111110001 111110111101 1001101111 111100011101 0101111010 110110101010 11101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og is repeated.

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

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