This is an analysis of the poem Einheriarne that begins with:

Fra Valaskialf gik Odin nu i den næste Hal;
Der vented ham Einheriar, de stod i tusindtal....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XbXX ccXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXd XXXe cXbf XXeX XXXc XgXd ccdX Xhii hhXX XXXX XXaa XXXj ccXf XXXX XXXX XXcX kklX XXXX jXcX XXdd jjXX XXXX XXXX fjXX XdcX XXXX XXll XhXg XcXX llXXXkkfj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110011011111 1101100011100 11110110101 111011011011 111111111 11111110101 011111011111 0111111111 110111101101 01111110111 1101010111101 110011111101 11101111101 1111111111 111100111111 110101111101 1011111101 1101011110101 110110110111 1111110010101 1011011101 11101011101 111110111101 11011011001 11111110111 111101011101 11111111111 100100100110 110111111 1001110110111 1101110111101 10011110111 11111011111 10111110100 1111100111000 111101110110 110011111111 1111010101 1101110111011 1111011101 1110011110 1101111111 111110110100 11101111011 11010001111 11001111100 110110111010 110111011111 1001101111 100010110101 1101000101101 110111010 110100011001 11101110110 11110001111 110111110111 11011101101 1111010111101 11011110111 1101110111101 1111010111111 1101010111101 11110101101 10110110111101 111111001 11101111101 1101101001 110111011011 10111011011 1101111001 11110111001 11111011001 111101110101 1011011001 11110111 1111110111101 11011010101 111110110100 110111101111 1101111111 111111011111 1101110110111 0101100101 10101111101 111111011100 1101110100101 110111011111 101011111 1101011110111 111100011111 11011010111 111110110100 11011010111 01001111100 11010001110 111110110100 11111111001 111110100001 1100110101111 11011011111 1101110111111 111111011001 110111111 01111110100 1111010100101 1110111101 11111111101 110111111001 010101001101 111110110010 11111011101 1110111111101 1110111111 1111110100011 1111010011111 1100111011 1101110110001 1010011010 110111011111 1101011101 11111011101 110101100101 11111111111 111111111111 1111100111110 11011101111000 1110110110110 10000111111 1101110111101 111101011011 111110011111 1101010101111 11111111110 101010111101 11110111111 11011111101 11111110110 1111101111 110111111101 11011111101 11111111110 1101110111101 110100111 1111101111 111110110100 1111110110111 110111111111 11011001111 011110110100 111100001101 11010111111 1101110101111 11011111101 110110111101 11111110101 10110110111000 11111011011 11110011001 111100110100 11011011100 111010111101 1111111101 11110101101110 111110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 164
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, den, de, da, d, som, f, en, og, st, han, med, ham are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words h, en, da 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 i, rd, gt, de, rst, d, g, r are repeated).

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  • summary of Einheriarne;
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