This is an analysis of the poem Den Gamle Lærkes Efteraarssang that begins with:
Den mørke Skye hen over Ørken gaaer,
De vilde Storme hvine om mit Rede;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX abaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX cXcX XXaX XXdX bXXX XXXX XXXX dbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11111011 011111111 11110111 11111011 111010101 1100110110 0101010101 110101011100 110111111 11010011010 11111101 11011110 11111111 11001111 110111111 1101101010 11111111 11010111 11111111 1111011 111111111 1101110001 111101100 11110101 1110010111 1111111 110011011 11101001 1110110010 1110001100 101111011 110110100 1101011110 10111111 1101111101 1101111111 11101110110 1101111100 11010111111 101011101 110101011 1101101110 110110111 101111110 11111100 111110101 1011010001 11111110 111111011 011101110 110101110 1111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, jeg, er, den, som, min are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word min is repeated.
The author used the same word saa at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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