This is an analysis of the poem Babels-Taarnet that begins with:
Paa Sletten ved Euphrat i Asialand,
Hvor nu kun boer Tiger og Løve,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXA XXXXA bXXXA XXcXA XXXXA XcXcA XXXXA dXdXA bXXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101100 11111011 11101110 11011011 110111010 011101110 11011110 1111111011 111101 110111010 1111101111 1101110 1101110110 11111011 110111010 110111101 11110110 011111011 11110010 110111010 11111101 11010101 1100111010 1111010 110111010 111101111 1011101 1111001001 1111011 110101010 1101001110 0110110 11011010110 110100110 110111010 111111111 1001111 11011011011 1101101 110111010 101011111 11111010 1101011010 110100110 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; de, med are repeated.
The author used the same word da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mester at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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