This is an analysis of the poem Fra Den Store Nordiske Krig that begins with:
Der slingrer en Smakke af Sted over Sø,
En kummerlig Prise for kræsne Korsarer;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXbXb XXXXXcXc XXXXXcXc XXXXXXdX XXeXeXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXbXb aXdXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111101 1100111100 110111101 110011010 110111101 11011010 1111011011 101001110 1111011011 111100101 1110011111 11011101 1101101011 1111011 100111111 101001011 101111101 1101111101 111111001 10011011 11001111010 01111 11101011100 01111001 110011101 111111010 101110111 11010011 11101011 110101 111110111 110111011 1101011101 1111011010 11001011011 11011 111111111 11111011 011111001 0111010 11011011010 11111010010 110110110 11111110 1101001110 11111010 11011001011 1111110110 1101101110 11011111 1111101101 111101010 1111111011 1101010 10110011 1100011010 11011011101 110111111 11111101 01101011 0101011101 11001010 1101101111 111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; med, og, jeg, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words kom, de, han are repeated.
The author used the same word det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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