This is an analysis of the poem Rosmer Havmand that begins with:

Konning Uller er sig i Hu saa mod,
han sidder ved Midienat....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcX XXXdeX bXXaXX XfXfXX XXXfXX XXXXagXXXcXcXXhXXXafXXXcXcXXXXXXdXXXXXaX XaXX XaXa aXaX XbXb XXaX XbXf hXXX cXci abaX aXXX XXXa aXaX XXXX XcXc jhXX dajX aXXX fXXX dXXX XXXa XXhX iXia XaXX XXXa XXaa jkjX gXgb XXXX XXXX XXfX aXXX eXek aXaX XXXX XdXX cX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,40,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011111 1101100 110101111 10110111 1001011110 1001100100 11011101 1111111 1101101111 11011111 11110110 1010111010 0111111 0101001 11111111 11011101 01101101 11100111101 101011001 1101101 11101111010 10111110010 0111011 10111100101 10100101 11110110 1010101 1111101 111110110 10011010 10111 10101110 101101 1111010 1111101 101111 101111 11110 1110100 11111 110111 1011111 111100 11001110 1110001 111110 101110 110111 1010111 1001011 1111 1100100 1110100 1011110 1110111 110110 101011 10111000 111001 1100110 101111 101010 11111 10110 11111 101011 111100 111110 11011 101011 11000111 1111111 1111101 111111 11111 1110011 111011 11011111 1110111 1101111 111111 1101111 1110111 11010011 11011100 101111 11011111 1111101 111101 11111 1111111 11111111 110110 1110010 111111 111111 11010100 10010101 1110111 11110111 1101111 111111 11101101 11010111 11011111 1110110 11101111 11011101 1101111 11011111 1111101 1101110 111111 1101111 110101 1110010 110101 111101 111111 1010 111001 110111 1111 11111 110101 110111 11101 111101 10110 11111 111111 111111 11101 011110 111001 110101 111100 11011 11010 11111 111 110111 110101 111111 110101 11111 110101 110101 11011 110011 110011 111100 11011 111101 11101 110111 11011 110111 11111 111111 110111 001101 111110 11011 111110 11011 110111 11111 110111 111001 110111 110111 11111 111101 110101 110111 110011 110101 111101 11111 0111 11011 110110 110111 10111 111111 100101 010111 11110 11111 110101 110110 111101 11111 0010010 111001 001110 1010101 110111 00111 110111 110111 11111 110111 11011 11111 110101 111111 110111 111101 11111 11011 11010 111111 10111 10011 10111 100100 11111 110101 01111 11111 11101101 1101 1101100 1101 11010111 111 11011101 1100 1111101 1001 1110111 111 1011111 1110 111111100 1111 1101110 110 011011 1110 10010111 1101 1101111 1101 111111 011 11100101 111 11110001 1011 11110011 1111 11001111 1001 11111101 1011 10011101 1101 1111111 111 11010111 1011 111111 111 1111110 111 10111110 1101 11111110 1101 110101110 1111 111101110 1111 1111100 1100 1111110 1111 1110111 1111 1111101 1110 10111111 1100 1101111 1011 1110101 1011 1101100101 110011001 01101001 11011011 0111011 011110001 100101110 11011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 62
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 302
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, at, og, hans, hun, n, han, du, d, huld, da are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, de, som, taus, da, og, snart, hans, en, hun, han, i, fra, skienk are repeated.

    The author used the same words da, hun 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 lge is repeated).

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  • summary of Rosmer Havmand;
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