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

Thor monne sig omgiorde,
Og kasted vidt sit Blik;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXaXbXbX XXXXXXXX XXXcXdXX XXXXXXXX XeXXFaXX XXXXXXXX XXXXbXbX XXXXFaXX XgXXcXXX XaXXXeXX XXhXXaXa XhihXXdX XaXXXXXa ahXhXXXX XXXjXXXX bhXXXiXX XXXgcXXX aXXXXhXX kXXXbabX XXXXXXXX XcXXXXXX XXXaXXXX XkXkbXbe XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaX
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 110111 0111 110111 111101 11111 110101 11011 11011 1111 111111 100100 110110 110111 1101010 110001 01111 10111 110101 110001 11101 111101 1111 11111 111100 110101 11111 111101 1101 0110 1110110 110101 111101 101101 11011 110111 11011 110111 11111 111111 111110 111101 101001110 11111 110111 11011 111101 11101 11111 11101 11111 11111 11101 1111 11011 11100 11011 011101 11111 011101 1111010 111100 111110 1110 110111 111 11111 110111 110111 1111 111101 11101 11111 11111 1111 1101000 111110 11111 110111 110111 110101 111111 110111 111101 110111 11111 110101 11111 11100 111101 110101 1111 101101 111111 11100 11011 11111 111111 1011 111101 110101 110101 1111 110111 101101 111111 11111 111111 01100 11001 111111 110101 1100111 110111 110111 111000 11111 111101 111100 111100 11111 110011 11111 11111 111111 110101 110111 11100 111110 11111 110110 11100 1111 110111 111111 11111 110110 110100 111100 11111 111110 11111 111011 11111 01101 11100 110111 110101 010011 1101110 11011 11010 1111110 11101 10111 11111 1111110 1111 1101110 110110 11111 11111 101101 111001 111111 111110 11011 111101 11111 11101 11110 11011 101101 111011 01101 11111 111010 111100 1111110 110111 110100 1101 110111 100111 1101 1111 11100 110111 101010 101101 11011010 101101 10011 011101 11110 110111 110111 110100 101111 101111 11011 11111 01101 111001 010101 11011 10110 110111 11101 111111 1011 010100 110101 111101 01111 111101 11011 101011 11011 100101 111111 11111 10111 0111 11111 111101 11111 111101 1101010 111000 111000 101111 111 11111 11111 110100 110101 111110 111100 011110 101110 110111 111010 11100 10111 110110 111101 110111 110111 111101 11111 110111 111110 11111 111010 111101 111101 111101 11111 110101 01111 111101 11101 111010 111010 11110 1101010 11011 0011110 1111 11111 11101 101111 11111 111101 11111 11111 110110 101101 111101 101010 11001 111010 111111 10011 111100 111111 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 36
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 288
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; den, sin, de, saa, hun are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, jeg, hun are repeated.

    The author used the same words da, hun, jeg, derpaa 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 ' is repeated).

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

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