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

Mildt boltre sig de lune Sommervinde,
fra klare Safirhvælving Maanen straaler...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXbX XXXXcXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXaX acXXXXXX dbdXdbXX cXcXXXaX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX aXXaaXXX aXXXXaXX XXXbXbXX XXXXBXdX XXeeeXXX XXXXBXdX XXXXXXbX bfXXbfXX XaXXXXXX aXaXaXXX XXXXXXcX XXXXXXXX bXbXbXXX XXXXXXXX XcXcXcXX
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101100 111001010 10010011 110110110 11111101 110111000 11010111010 111001000 1111011101 111111100 1101110111 11011110 11111101 111111100 1101110 110111011 111110001 1111011111 1101110111 1111101 111010011 11111111 11101101 11011001 110111110 111111111111 11110101 111111101 1111111111 1101001101 111101111 111101111100 1101011111 1101111010 111010011 1101011110 1101010011 110111010 1101011110 1101111101 11010101 11011011010 1101111101 1111011010 1110101 11010111010 11010111 1101010101 11110101 00111110100 1111010101 11010101 11011101001 111111010 011001101 11111111 1101011110 10110111 11111111110 11111111 11101100 11111011 11010100100 1111011100 111101100 1101111010 1101111111 101110111 110110111110 11011111100 110111111 111010111 1111111 111001111 110111101 1111111 110111111 11011110 1101111100 111111010 1101111 1111011 11111110 1101111 1111011101 111111111 0111111111 11011101100 101011111 1111011100 111110111 11011101110 011000111 1101111110 101101111 1101111100 1101011111010 110111100 1101111000 0111101110 111111010 11011101000 111001111 111101001000 11011111100 11011101 11111111 111111111 1111101101 110111011 11001111010 110100111100 110111111110 110111100 011111000 1111101110 111111010 11011101000 011100111 110111001000 1100111100 110111011 1101010110 111101001 11010110 01101111100 11111111010 1101110100 111101010 11111010111 11110111010 1001110100 111110110 0101100111 11111111111 011111110 11010110 11011111 11010111000 1101110011 1001110110 010010110 11111011 1111110101 11111011 11101111 111100111 0101010111 1111111101 11111110 1101010000 10011111100 11111011 11010011010 110110111 1110111110 11101001 11111110 010111110 1100111000 11011101010 11011111 1111010 1111101 11100100110 11011111 111110110 1111111010 1101000110 1101111 1101011010 111100111 111111110 11111111 110111110 1101111100 11111111 1111111101 11111101001 110111111 101101011101 11011011 101011101 111010101 1101010100 1111101110 1001111 1111100110 10000111110 1101010110 1101111111 11010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 192
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, hvor, de, mig, d, i, det, hun, han, du, over, den are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvor, en, den, som, da, og, det are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lger, de, rdet, ie, be are repeated).

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