This is an analysis of the poem Vilhelm Hammershøj that begins with:
Graa og gram var Tiden med sin bitre Viden.
Luften — raa og ram — blev lys af Ynde siden....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XXXX aaXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011110 10111111110 1111111111 01111010111 1111111010 101110001110 10111011101 100111101 1110111101 1101011001 101111011 101001111 1111000101 1111111101 111111101 1111101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; og, d are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines den is repeated).
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