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

I et Halvhundredeaar jeg Harpen rørte,
Mig Landsland tidt og Nabo gierne hørte,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaa XXXX XXXX XXbb XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX ddXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110001101 110111011 1111111 1001010110 11011100 1101011111 110111111 111010111 11010111010 11000111000 111100111 11110111 1111011101 110001011 1011011001 11110111 111100111010 1011101110 100111111 11011111 111011110 11011101110 111101110 1111100 11110011010 11010101100 111010111 01011111 111110011 1100011001 11010111110 1101111110 1101111110 10001111 1000011001 110011100 1101111 110101110 11110110 11101101 1101011100 1101111100 111111011 1111111111 1000111110 111111110 0111010110 1110011100 111010101 110110110 1100001011 1000111110 101111110 111011110 1111000110 10010011100 1111111110 1111101100 11101111 1011110001 111111 1101111111 1111011100 1100111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; et, han, det, den are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rte, nne, nge, rket, re are repeated).

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  • summary of Forord;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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