This is an analysis of the poem Loke Skaffer Aser Klenodier Hos Dvergene that begins with:

Han sad i Hallen og tænkte derpaa,
Hans Hevn ham glædte saa saare:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXbX cXcX XXXX dXdX cXcX XXbX XXXX XXeX bXXX XXXX XXfX XeXX XXeX XXgX XXhX XXXX XXXi XaXX XXXX XXXc eXeX XgXX XXXX XXXX iXiX XXXX dXdX XjeX daXX XXXX gXgX XXga cXXX XXXX XXXf XjXj gXgX bXbX giXi gXXX XXeX gXgX XXXX XhkX bXbX XXfk XXbX XXXX XXXX gaba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101110 111111 1111101101 111101 1101110110 0101111 111101101 11110010 111110101 1101011 11011111 1101011 1111111 111110 111111101 1111110 11100111 1101110 1111101 1101110 11011110 1111010 1111111 1101000 110011011 1111011 110111101 0101101 10100111 1111011 111111111 1101100 11011101 11111 1111111 1111 11111011 1111001 1111111 111010 1001111 11001110 1101111 11111010 11111101 111011 1111011 1011011 11101101 111111 1110111001 111111 110111100 1111111110 11111101 11011110 11110101 111111 1101101111 1011011 1111110 11011000 11111101 11110110 1111110 1111110 11111111 100111 1111011111 1101101 11011101 110101 1101011 110110 11011111 0111100 010101101 1111000 100101001 10011000 01011101 1101000 10010011 11110110 1101011 111101 010101101 110111 10110111 1110110 110101100 11011011 11111000 1110100 011001101 11011000 111001101 10111000 1101111 1111000 111111 110111 01111010 111101 110111000 11011 11000011 0101 111100111 11011010 1110111 11110100 1111111 11101 11111101 1110110 1111101 11011010 111000110 1111110 1111101 1111111 111101111 10111 1101111 010101 1111001 11010 110110110 11010100 11011111 1111110 11011101 1111101 11011110 111101 111111 0110100 11110100 11010110 111111101 110111 110111001 110111 11111011 11111011 110011111 1101111 111101111 11111001 1111111 110111 10011011 1101101 1100111101 11000110 1101111 011011 010111111 111111 111111111 11110110 11110111 11110100 111111001 1101100 1101101101 11110110 111101101 110111 110111101 1111101 111101100 1111100 11111111 11100110 111111001 1111101 1101111001 1100100 100111111 11110100 1111011011 111101 1111111001 111101 11011101 11111 110011110111 1001011 110111011 1101111 0101111001 11011010 110011111 1101010 111111101 1111110 11011111 11011010 110111111 11110110 111011101 1101010 111111111 1110011 111111011 111111 110111011 110111 1111010001 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 53
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 212
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hun, han, du, ved, g, den, de, og, det, ham, paa, sin are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ved, de, og, den are repeated.

    The author used the same word de 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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