This is an analysis of the poem The Elected Knight. From The Danish. that begins with:
Sir Oluf he rideth over the plain,
Full seven miles broad and seven miles wide,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbb ddee Xdff ccaa Xbgb XagX cccX bXgX bcbc bbbb ahXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101101001 110101110101 11011011001 010111 1110011 011101 01110111 1110111 110101 110101 101101001 11110111 110101 110101 100100111 11110111 110101 0111101 101101101 01110101 110101 010101 11110101 01011001 110100110 01010101 11101011 10111101 111101 111111 111011 110101110 1101010 11110110 11110101 1101010 01110101 1111001 010110101 111111 01110101 100011 01110101 111101 11010101 1111101 1101000110 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; they is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same words he, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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