This is an analysis of the poem Ole Worm that begins with:

Man bygger op med stor Umag
De stolte Monumenter,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXbX caca XXXX aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110 011000 11001100 11110 10011101 111000 1001110 1110 11110100 101101 11110011 11010 1011100 10111111 11000110 1111000 110000111 1101000 0101111 111110 1111010 111111 1111101 11110 110110100 111101 111010 11101 11111101 11011 1111111 110110 1100111 00110100 1011111 110010 10101101 110111 11111101 111101 1111111 11111 11011101 1111 11011101 1101100 101110 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; med, er, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, og are repeated.

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  • summary of Ole Worm;
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