This is an analysis of the poem De Tvende Kirketaarne that begins with:

Det var sig Herr Asker Ryg,
Hannem lyster i Leding at gange;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX XXXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XXde aXXX XXfX bXXe XXcX XXXX aghX AiEX Xebe AXEX XXcX XXXX Xgbg XgXg chXh iXXb XXXX XeXe XXXb XXXX Xjdj XXXX aXjX jhXh fkXk XXHX bXHe XXHX XXXX Xhjh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 101011011 11111110 110100 1011111 110111 1111101 101110 1111101 110111 10111101 11111 1111011 111111 1011101 110111 11101101 1011011 11111011 101100 111111 111100 101010101 111111 110111 0011111 11111111 1111 10110101 110111 1001011001 11110111 101000101 1101110 11011011 1101011 1001111 110111 1110111 1100100 1011111000 111111 111101 0100111 11111 11011011 111011010 111111 10111 11010011 1011111 10101100 1011111 1101101 1011101 11111 10111 0011110 1011111 1101011 1011100 110111 100101111 11001001 1111101 110111 110111100 111100 10111 111101 1111101 010111 1111010 11101001 1111101 110111 11111001 10101111 1011111 1011111 11110011 111101 1111100 1111011 101011001 111011 1111101 1101111 1110100 1101101 11111001 110111 1011100 110111 1110100 111111 1111101 111111 1111100 111111 1111101 1100111 1111111 11110 1011100 0101101 1111100 110110 111011 111100 1111010 1101100 111010 111101 11111111 111111 1101110 111100 111111 1101111 1001111 1101011 101101 01111 101111 1101101 101101 011111 1111101 111100 101101 0101101 11110100 11011011 11111 1100100 1111110 1001101 1101101000 1101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 140
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; det, du, mig, han, den are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words det, den at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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