This is an analysis of the poem Reent Og Ureent that begins with:

Underveis var til St. Peder
Fra en Hedning Ord og Bud:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXX XbXXXXa XXXXXXX cXcaXXd dXXaXXX XdXXXXX eaeXXXX XaXXXXX XXXXXXX XfbfXXa XXXXaXX XXXXXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011110 1110111 11111110 111101 1011101 11111 1111101 101111 1011100 11111 1110110 1111010 10101000 1000101 111111 1011101 11111 101101 11101 11011 11111 101111 111110 1011101 101111 11101000 11111110 1110111 1011101 111100 1011111 100111 111110 10111110 1101110 111010 1010111 11110 101110 1011101 11111 1111111 1011110 111101 10101110 1010111 111111 110111 1110111 1011100 1111101 10111010 111101 11101010 101110 1111111 111111 100111 1110011 111100 101010 1110101 1000101 10110 1110111 110111 1110101 110101 10111 111101 110110 1011101 11101010 111100 1110111 1111110 1110110 11111100 1011111 11101100 111111 1111010 1110110 1010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 93
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; til, og are repeated.

    The author used the same word peder 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 vne, der are repeated).

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