This is an analysis of the poem Loke Fatter Elskov Til Sif that begins with:
I Valaskialf sad Loke længe,
Han kieded sig, lod Hovdet hænge,...
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XX XXX XXX Xa ab bX XXX cXX XX XX XXX X XXXX XXX XXX XX cX cX XX Xc XXX aaX XX XX XXX XXX XX XX XXXX XcXXb XX XbXX XXX XX Xa XdX XXX XXXX XXX XX bbX dXXXXe eXX XXX XXX XXX XXXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,3,2,2,2,3,3,2,2,3,1,4,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,2,2,3,3,2,2,4,5,2,4,3,2,2,3,3,4,3,2,3,6,3,3,3,3,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111 11011101 11011011 1111101 110111010 11111100 1100111 1101111 11110001 11111101 1111011 1110011 11010111 1111101 11011111 11110111 1111101 11001100 110001110 101101100 11111010 11011110 100111000 110111110 11011110 11011111 0111110 110111010 1111111 11011101 1001110 11110010 11011110 11010111 11011101 111111 11011110 11111110 11101100 110111000 11001101 010101 1110010 111101010 101111 0110110 1101111 11110111 1101111 11010111 01111110 110111010 111011 11110 1101101 11111101 11110011 011111 111111 010101 110011 1110111 11011101 1001110 11111100 111111010 0111111 11011111 1111110 1110111 11001101 10010111 1110101 1111011 11011111 111111 11111010 11010111 11110100 1100101 10111110 1111100 011100 011111 1111100 111111 011111 1101011 1111011 110011 010001010 1111110 1111111 111111 111111 11011110 110101000 11111000 1111100 11111000 10011100 110001110 1101101 1111011 111101010 11111010 1111100 111111000 1111111 10110111 11111000 1111110 101111 1101111 1101111 111101 11010111 11011111 1111111 11011110 11111110 11111110 11001101 11011110 10110001 1110111 111011 11100101 11110110 1111110 11111000 110111010 1111110 11011110 01010101 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 49
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; han, at, og, de, en, paa are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, hun are repeated.
The author used the same words at, han, de, det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nge, nker, lge, nder, dder, de, lver are repeated).
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