This is an analysis of the poem Hakon Jarls Död that begins with:
De Nætter ruge saa lange og sorte.
Syvstiernen skimter saa mat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaXXXXbX XXcXcXaabX dedXXcXXXX XXeXXceXXX aXXeXXXXXX cXXXXXXXXX XeXXXXXeXX XXXXXXcXXX XXcXXbXXeX XbXbXXXXff XXXXXXXXXX XXXecccXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111 1001011 1101011001 11010111 11000110 110111010 11010 1110 1101101101 110100100 1101010 10101100 11111110 11011011 11101110 1100101110 0101 011 1111101 111110000 10101011 1101101101 11101 10111100 111111100 1110110 111 11 01101101 1100100101 110101100 1101011 1101101111 1101101111 110101010 1110111110 1111 10110 110101101 11011101 10011101 010110 110010011 110100101 10111010 1110101100 11001 1111 1011001010 101010110 10111010110 11011111 1111110 11011111 11011111 1100111101 11011 1111101 11011111011 1111101110 1101111 1101101 110111101 110101101 11010010100 1101110 1111 1101 11011101 110111100 110111101 110101101 1011111 110101100 100110101 1111101010 1010 1111 1101111 11011101 110111110 1110101 1011111010 110111010 1111110010 1100111110 10001 11010 10111101 110010101 1100111011 1101111 1111101111 111111101 101111110 101111111 11011 111010 110111111 1101100101 1101111 001010110 110110101 100110111 110110001 11011101 1111 10111 10101011010 111010001100 1101100010 110010111 01101010 10011011011 100110110 1101011010 1110 1111 1111101001 110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; den, de, d, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, den, hvi are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, ber, d, der, nk, be are repeated).
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- summary of Hakon Jarls Död;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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