Om Fenrisulven Og Tyr by Adam Oehlenschläger: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Om Fenrisulven Og Tyr that begins with:

Nu blev der Fryd i Valhals Gaard;
I fine Vadmel, bløde Maar,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXX XXXXXbcdXc XXXXeXXXaXdd XdbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXX XXXXXXXXXXXX fXaa XfXXXXgX XXXXXaXXgXXXXXXh XXXXXXeX XXXXiXjX XXiXXkXXbbiX aXXXfXXXXXXXXaXXaaXXiXXX XXXXXXXX XXfXaXjjXXXXXXXX lXaaXaXXXX lldXXXaXddXXcchhccXXXXXXXXaXcdXXXXffXXkXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,12,20,12,4,8,16,8,8,12,24,8,16,10,42,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 111011 111011 1101111 1101111 11011100 110011 11011100 101100 110111 111111 0110101 0111101 11111 1111001 0111001 0111101 11010100 11111101 1110100 101011 10110101 01110101 1111100 10110110 11111100 11010111 1111110 11011110 11010101 11001100 11010101 11011101 110110 1001111 11010111 11010100 11011100 111011 1111010 1111111 11011101 111001 11010110 1001101 11001111 11011100 11011011 1111100 1110011 11011111 111111 1111110 10111101 11011101 1111111 1111011 11010111 11011101 1101111 1110001 11111111 1011111 11110100 1110111 1111101 111011 111111 1111111 111100 10111111 11011101 1101011 1011111 1110101 11011100 11011111 1011111 11010101 11011101 11011101 1101110 10011100 111111 11110111 111111 10011111 1011101 1111100 110111 110111 11010101 1110111 11011101 11100111 1111100 111001 11011101 0111001 111111 10110111 1101101 10111100 11001101 1101011 111111 1111111 11011001 1111101 1111101 101111 110011 1111111 1110111 11101110 10010100 1101100 11011101 1001101 1111101 11001111 1101111 110111 111111 1101111 1111101 0111111 1100100 1100011 1111111 10111111 11011101 110111 11011100 11011101 111101 11011 110110 111111 11100100 1110101 11011101 1101111 1001111 1110111 11111111 111111111 1111111 1111011 1111111 1100111 111110 11111100 11011101 10111101 111001111 0110111 1110100 11011101 0111101 1100011 11111001 10011100 1110111 1111101 11010101 11010001 1101111 010111110 1111010 1111011 111111 11000111 11011101 11010111 11111101 1101111 1110111 11110101 11011100 11110111 11110101 11110100 111111 011101 111111 1111101 111111 11111101 10110101 1111111 11011101 1111111 1101100 1111111 11110101 1111101 10010111 110111 11110111 11111101 11011111 1111111 1111001 111111 11110101 1101110 1111110 1110111 1111101 11001101 1111111 111111 111101 11011111 1111100 1110111 1111101 111110 11110101 0110110 0111100 11011 11011101 1110011 111101 01101101 101101 0110110 1101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 230
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; du, i, og, d, han, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, og, da, snart, hver, hun are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, d, g, gt, st, rv, nke, rn, de 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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