This is an analysis of the poem Prinsessens Dossier that begins with:
Prinsesse Merete, den unge Prinsesse Merete
(det var i det graa Helsingør,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabXXbc dXbXX XXXXXX eXXXfXXX XXXXXXg XeXX XXXX eXaXXXX XXXccXXXXXXgX XXXX hhaaXXXX fcXacXX XXXXeX afXX XXX gXX XXfX XccXX XXdXXXXXXXXX XXbX XgXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,6,8,7,4,4,7,13,4,8,7,6,4,3,3,4,5,12,4,5,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111010 1111110 101100011 1010011 111001 11111100 11101 011011011011 11110 101011010110 1101101011010 11001001010111 110110111101 1101101111010 1111110 101100011 11111110011100 1101101111 110101111 1011100111001 110011101 1011101 1011101100 1111001110 1010101111 1100010101110 011010110100 1100100110 1011111 1101100100 1001111001 1101111010 111111111111 111011110 1100010011 1101011111 11111111 111111101 100100110 1011101000 11111100100 1111101011 11110111110 1101111111 1011 1101011010 1110001010 11100 01001 10110110 1110011110 1111111 1100110010 11101001 1111101110 101001 11010 11000 11110 111 10011111011 1011110110101 1101011000 1101001100 1111110110 111111010 110101000 10111000110 1110111101 10110111110 11100110110 111101100 11011011001 101110100 110110111 1101101111 011100001 1010110111 110111101 11001111 11010111100 1101111100 111100111 1011111000 1110101011 1111111001 110110100101 1100001100 1110111001 110101111 1011101111 110010110 111111111 1111111111 11010110010 1110101 1100101011 1101101101100 11001110 11101011010 1001001111 110010110 100011100000 1011001 111101111 111101111 1111111110 100101100000 1010011101 100001110 10000011000 10010100110 111100111000 1000010100 11000110 1101111 1111000 11111101 11111 1110111010 1111110101100011 1010011111001 110110111101 111111 1111101101 1101110 111111010 111100100 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 131
- 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; det, i, er, og, ved, et, hun, til are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, som, det are repeated.
The author used the same words prinsesse, men, prinsessen 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 r, rer, je, vet are repeated).
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