This is an analysis of the poem Skirnirs Reise that begins with:
Nu ilte Skirnir, hvad han kunde,
Ned ad den skiønne Regnbuerand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcXc adadXXXX XXeaXXbX XaXXXXXX X XXfX X XXXg X bXXaXaXX X XhiXXXXj X XXXfXXeX X XXXXifXa XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXbhXh jXjXXfXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XibbXdXd XXXXXXXX XXXXaXXX XXXXXXbX XXXaXXXX XaXXXkfk XXXXXXXX XXXXbXXX XXXXXXXX XXXlXXXX XXXmXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,1,4,1,4,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1111100 11010101 1111100 11110110 1101111 111111010 110111 1110101 010111 1100011 11110111 1111101 10110111 11010110 1101111 1111100 1101001 111111 110111 1010111010 1110111 10110110 1101011 110101110 11011101 110101110 0101111 0011111011 11000011 1110101 1101100 10 11000101 11110111 11011111 11010101 10 11001110 11111101 111111 0111101 10 11011110 111110 1011101 11110101 10011101 11110101 1110110 1101110 10 11001100 1111101 10111001 11111 10010101 11110011 1100011 1101111 10 1000101 101101 01011101 111111 1111110 11010101 10111011 1101111 10 11111011 11111111 11111101 1111011 1111111 110011 1101110 11001101 1110101 11011101 1111101 11011101 11111001 1111011 1101001 1110011 1110110 1111011 11011100 11110111 1001011 1011010 1101111 1110010 1101101 1101111 10011101 11001101 101111110 1100111 11101101 111011 1101101 111100 1101011 11110100 10101000 1010111 11101110 11011011 11101010 11001111 11111010 10010101 10101110 11011101 101111010 111110 1110110 1111111 11101110 1101100 110101010 10110111 1111010 111100 110111 11011111 1101110 11010111 110101010 1101111 10111110 10011100 10011101 1110111 11011010 11111010 11111010 1101111 10101110 1100111 110110100 101101 1111111 111111 11101110 11011111 110111000 11110110 11101101 11111 111111 1101101 111001 1111111 11111100 11100101 1110111 11110111 1111101 11110 100101110 11110110 11010110 1101011 11011010 1101101 11011101 10110101 11111111 10011101 1101101 1011100 11111110 1110111 10011110 101110 110111000 11011111 111101110 111101 11111101 1001101 0110101 1111101 111110 1101010 111100010 11011100 11001101 1111111 1110100 100100 11011110 1111101 111110010 10111111 11111010 1111101 11111000 1111 1101110 1101111 11010010 11010111 101110110 11111 110101100 11011101 10011110 0110100 110011110 1101001 11010100 11011001 1001011 11001110 10011010 111111 1011101 111110 11001110 11010111 11111110 1111111 1111010 11011101 110111010 1110111 11011100 11111101 11010111 11110101 10 101111 1111111 1101111 11010111 10 11111110 101011 1111110 1101101 10 11010110 11011011 110111010 11011101 10 111011110 11111101 11011110 1111111 10 01010101 1101011 110011 1101011 10 10111010 11011011 11010110 111011 10 1111111 1101011 111011 11001101 10 010111 11111101 1101011 11010101 10 11011101 11011101 11111101 111011 10 11110101 1111111 1101110 111111 10 11111110 1110101 11010100 11011101 10 11111111 11111111 111110 11011101 10 01011101 11011101 111011 1111111 10 10011110 1110011 11110101 1010111 10 111101 1111101 111111 1110111 10 111111110 11011101 11111110 1101011 10 11011101 11110101 1111111 11011101 10 1111101 11110101 1110101 0111101 10 11011010 11010111 11010111 1101111 10 110111110 110111 111111010 1101111 10 11011100 1111001 11011101 110111 10 10111100 11010111 1101111110 11100101 10 1011111 11011010 1101111 1101011 10 110111010 1101111 11111010 10110101 10 100101000 11011111 110011010 1110101 10 10111110 1101111 11011110 111111 10 0110101 1101111 1101111 0111101 10 11011101 11011101 1101111 1101011 10 11010111 11011111 11011101 1001110 10 11011101 101101 111011 1111011 10 111111 1111101 0101011 111101 10 1011110 11110111 110011010 1110101 10 01011110 1111101 100001010 11011101 10 11010111 11011 1101011 1111101 10 1110101 0110101 1111101 11011100 10 100111 01111010 1101001 11111111 10 11110110 11011100 111110 11110111 11110111 110111 111011 11111111 1110101 1111110 11111111 11011110 110011 1111101 11011111 111010 11110100 11011101 11010111 1111111 1001011 1101011 1101110 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 115
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 439
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, jeg, om, af, hos, den, der, var, med, som, og, d, er, mme, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, du, jeg, om, han, den, hvor, med, som, i, det are repeated.
The author used the same words om, nu, da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Skirnirs Reise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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