This is an analysis of the poem Den Store Sal that begins with:

Gulnare. Noureddin.
De sidde sammen til Taffels. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXabXbXcXb XXX XXXbXXXaXXXXXXbXXXXXXaXXXXXXX XX XXdXXXXXXXcXXdeXX XX XaXaX XfX XXXaXXXXXXaXXXX XX XXXX XXX XXbX XX XXcXXX XXX XXXXX XXX XaXXX XfXXXXX XXXeX XXX XXXXX XX XaX XXXXXd Xc XXXXX XXeX XXXXXXX XXXXX XXfXX XXX XXX XXX XXc XXXXX aa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,20,3,29,2,17,2,5,3,15,2,4,3,4,2,6,3,5,3,5,7,5,3,5,2,3,6,2,5,4,7,5,5,3,3,3,3,5,3,4,7,2,5,2,11,1,2,5,4,2,3,4,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100 0110110 10 11011100 1111101 100 10111 10111010 111110110 11010111110 1011001001 101111100 100111101 11011111000 1100111011 11101111 11110110110 11111111 111110111 11110111010 101110111 11111111110 111011111110 11111011 11010111101 10 1110111110 1111111100 100 1111101111 11111100110 1001011111 1101111110 11101111 1101011110 1000111111 110111111 1111101011 1101111000 111101110 100011111110 110110110 11111011 111010100 1101110101 1001011110 111111011 1111011110 101001101 100111111 10001111010 1101011000 1100101101 1111110110 1010001111 11111001010 1111001011 10 111111 100 1011 11011101111 1011110101 110111100 11011111 1001011110 1111100 1101111010 111101000 110101110 1101111011 11110101 1111011 011111111 1111110 111111110 10 10100 100 111111 11010101100 100011111 11001 10 11 1111011100 100 1111111010 110111010 1101011010 111011100 11101111 11110101 11111000 1101110010 1111101000 111110101 111001010 11010101110 111101101 1101110100 10 1011 100 11110 10110101111 1101011101 10 1011101110 11110 100 1101 11011101011 1111101110 10 110 100 111110 1110010110 110101111101 10111100 11001101010 10 110111110 110111001 100 11111111 11110111101 11111111111 11011011 10 11010 111001011010101000111 100 11111 11001101000 11010111 110100 10 11 111101111 11101111 01111011 11100110 1101011100 100 110111110 101111110 111101111 1111110110 10 1101010111 11111101 100 01101111 101010100 111101110 111111100 10 111101000 100 111011101 100101110 10 10100 1 1011111111 110111100 100110001 100 11010111110 10 1011001111 11111101100 11100100 101111010 100 11100111110 1101111 0101 10 11100 1101011111 11111111 110101111 11010111110 100111111 100 1111 11000111110 1100111111 10110101011 10 1010100 1110011111 111101111 110110111 10010 1111011 1110 10 1110111111110110 110100010 100 11 10111 1010 1101 11110 100 111101 1111111111 111101011 110111100 010 111111111011110100110100101101010011101101011101 1101 100 1110 010 111101011111110101 010 1111110110 11010 11011110011111 11011 11101111111 11111101110 100 101011110 010 101111 111101110 1110111101 11111111 100 01011011001 010 111111001 1101110110 111111111 11111011 1110011110 11111111 110110111 1111111101 111111001 1101100001 1001 10 110101 010 1110 101111011 010110111 1000101111 10 1111110111 11111111 11 010 1101110110110 101 1010 110101110111 010 111111111 110111111101 11111101111101 101 11010111101 101101110100 010100 0110110111 1101111111 101 1111110111 01111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 56
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 278
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, at, veed, til, og, det, om, er, i, den, d are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word gulnare at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase jeg connects the lines.

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