This is an analysis of the poem Giøgleriet I Utgard that begins with:

Da ved de brede Borde
De Kæmper rundt nu sad,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXX XXXXXabX XXXXXXXX caXXXXbX XdXXXbXb eXeXXXXX XaXaXXXX XfXXXXXX XXXaXXXA aaXaXbXb XXXghaXa eiXiXXXX XXXXXiXX XXXXXXaX gXXXXhaX XaXXXXXX hdXXXXXX XXXXXXcX aXaXXXXX XXXXXXXX XdXXXXXX XXXaXXXa gXXaXXXX XaXXXXXX XXXhXXXX XXXXXXXa XXXXXbXX XXXgXXXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 01111 11111 11101 11111 11101 111111 101101 1011 11011 11111 11111 11101 111111 110110 1101100 1111110 110111 1111010 11011 010110 110011 1111000 11001100 111010 01001 101101 1101111 11011 1001101 101101 11111 11111 11011 1111 10111 11101 110111 111100 1101011 111110 110111 110010 111101 0111 101111 11111 111101 1111 111101 1111000 110101 111101 11111 110101 111100 110101 1111 11111 111111 1101010 111100 11110010 11111 111110 110111 10111 1111 1111011 11111 11111 110111 11111 110111 1011 111101 1111010 111111 1111110 1110 11110 110011 111111 111111 110101 11111 110110 10111 1111110 111101 101010 111111 010110 1111000 111110 1111000 11101 111101 1111011 1110101 110111 11011 11111 1111 110111 11001 011110 110101 11111 111101 11111 10111 11001 11101 111011 111111 11011 111101 111111 11111 111111 11011 111111 110111 1011110 110110 1111000 111100 11011 11111 111110 111100 110111 111101 111111 11111 111110 110111 111110 110101 11111 111111 111111 110111 111111 111101 11111 11111 111111 10111 11111 111011 111110 10111 11101 111101 111111 111101 111011 111100 11111 11101 111101 111100 110111 111101 101110 1101111 1111100 01111 1111000 110111 111111 111111 110111 11111 1111 11111 111110 11111 1111 10111 111101 10111 110111 111101 111111 111110 1111 00111 111101 11011 1011 11110 111111 110111 111111 11101 10111 1111 11110 111101 111111 110111 11101 111100 11111 1101111 1111 11111 110111 11111 111101 100111 110111 111111 11111 111101 101111 111101 111110 110101 111110 10100 1011010 11110 1011010 011111 11111 11110 1111 11011 1101100 110111 11011110 111100 1111010 110101 1111010 111101 111111 101101 111100 11111 111111 1101 110111 110111 1101100 11011 1101000 110111 110100 1100111 1111010 01111 11111 111101 11101 10111 11111 11111 11111 11111 11101 111110 111001 10111 111110 111111 111101 111101 11101 111111 111111 1101101 11111 110011 111101 11111 1111010 10111 1111100 11001 111101 111011 1101101 110110 1111010 110111 111110 111100 1111010 111110 1111010 101100 11111 110110 111001 110111 11111 111111 110101 111111 111110 11101 1111000 11101 101111 1111 11101 11011 111110 11111 11111 11101 11111 11111 110101 11101 11111 01010 110110 111111 1101110 111111 1010110 1111 11101 110101 11001 010101 111111 101110 10111 11010 1111 10111 110110 111011 11111 110111 1111 1101110 111111 1111 11111 110111 111111 110111 110111 111101 111110 1111 1111110 111101 111111 1111110 11111 1111010 11011 11111 110111 11111 11111 111111 111011 11011 11111 11101 111101 110101 111010 110111 111110 110100 111111 111111 1111 11011 11111 11100 11111 11101 111111 11101 111001 111101 1111010 11011 111110 111101 1111100 101100 1110100 111111 111100 111111 1111 11111 11111 110111 1111 11101 11111 11111 11101 11100 111111 11111 11011 111111 010111 111101 11011 110111 111010 11111 1011 111111 111111 1111 11101 11111 111010 111101 1111010 111 11111 111101 1111011 110111 11111 11111 110110 110111 111101 11111 11111 110101 1111010 10110 011111 11011 11111 111101 11111 11111 111111 110111 110101 100111 11111 010111 110111 110101 111010 110101 110111 110111 111111 010111 111101 11100 110111 11111 11101 10111 111110 011001 11111 01011 11111 111101 110111 1111 111110 111101 11100 11111 1111000 11101 1111100 1101 111110 100100 11110 111101 111111 111101 111111 11110 11110 11111 11110 111011 110110 11111 11111 111101 111111 11111 11111 11101 01100 111101 01001 010111 100110 11011 1111010 11110 1111 110111 111101 111111 011011 111101 11111 1111 01111 11011 111111 111101 11101 110111 01001 111101 1111000 11111 1111110 1110 11111 1101 111010 11111 111101 110100 11101 110100 1101110 11011 1111010 111111 111111 111101 101110 111101 111101 11011 11110 111111 11100 1111 111011 100010 101101 110101 101101 11011 1111110 111101 111010 111101 11111 111100 11011 11111 1111 111100 10011 11011 1111 111101 111111 111110 11110 111101 11111 11110 11111 11111 11111 111100 11111100 111100 111110 111111 110110 110111 101100 11011 011110 11111 101101 11111 11110 11111 101110 011101 101111 110111 110111 11011 1101110 11111 1101110 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 76
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 608
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; man, du, i, han, sig, det, de, vi, den, fter, er, hun are repeated.

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

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

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

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

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