This is an analysis of the poem Graavejr that begins with:
Det skumrer mellem Klitterne; en skyet Dag
er listet over Jorden tyst og tungt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 0101010111 111101111111 111111111 1101011011 110101011111 1111111111 11111111 11101111111 111101111 11101110100 1100011101 1110001010 11101111 111101011101 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; dag, en, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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