This is an analysis of the poem Knud Den Store that begins with:
Kong Knud sad stor og mægtig paa sin Throne;
En Herre, drabelig og stærk og huld....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXabXX bXbXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX bXbXXXbX XcXcbcXX XXXXXXXX XbXXXbXX XdXdXdbX XXXdXdXX bXbXbbXX XXXeXeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111 1101001111 111011010 1101011101 111111101 110111111 1101110111 11101011 1111110011 11011110 10011111 1101111101 01101111 1111011 1101111010 111011110010 1101110110 111111111 1111111 1011110110 111110110 111110001 11111111 11011111111 1101110111 111011110 11101101 111111111 11011110 1101010111 11011111111 111010110 110110011 111011111 11111111 1001110110 1111110111 1101011010 01111101 100101111000 10010111 1110101 1101110101 111101011 111111101 111101011 11011111010 110111110 101111001 11101111 1101110111 11111101 11110101 110111101 1101110111 110001111 11111111 1111111 111001111 1111111 110111111 11111101 1111011101 111111111 1101111110 111101101 11111110100 111101011 111110010 1111110101 111001011 100101111110 11101111 111111001 111011011 11101101 1111111 1111011101 111111111 110111011 111011111 1111011001 110111011 110101101 1101011101 110101111 11111111 11011111 111111101 11110111 101111101 1101011101 111111110 1100010111 111011000 1101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, hans, jeg, med, de, det, hvor, den, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words min, og are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, nker, lge, ngte are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.
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