This is an analysis of the poem Skovkirken that begins with:
I Gudbrandsdalen stod en eenlig Hytte,
Hvis Eier ei var bleven Dødens Bytte,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX abXcaX XXXXXX XXXXdX XaXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXbXeX fXXXXX gXXXbX XXXXXX XXXhXX XXhhXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXhhXX XXXXXX XbhXdX XXXXXX XXXgeX XgeeXX XXXXXX aXXXXX XXXXXX bbhhXX gXXXXX XgXXXg XXgXfX XhXXXX XXXXXe gXXXXX bXcXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100011101 11111011 11011111 11101111 111111 101111111 011111101 1011011 1111111 11101101 11100 11110010101 111111100 11111011 1111011011 1111111 110101 110101100 1111011010 1111101110 111111101 11101111 111101 111111111 110111110 1111011100 10111111 1111111001 1101110 111111101110 11110101 1110111101 1001011111 1100011011 11011 110100110111 110101110 110101101 010110011 11111101 101101 1101111011 111000110 1100011101 1111110011 10111100 111101 110100111000 1101111111 1101111 110011111 1011000100 111110 1101111101110 1111010101 11111101 110111101 1111110100 111001 110111101010 111111111 1101011111 011111111 11001111 110111 1101010101 111110011 111110111 111011101 111010111 1101000 01101111000 11011111010 1111011010 11011011 1111111 110110 110111111111 110111111 10011101 1101100111 110111011 110110 11011111111 111101011 1101110111 111111111 0111010 110010 111101111101 11111011010 1111011010 11111111 111100111 11111 110111110110 1111001111 0111110001 11110111 110011101 01111 11111111101 1110110010 11111101110 11011111 1111111111 100111 11110111101 1111111110 0101011111 1111010101 111101011 10111 11011111111 110111010 110111101 11111111 11111111 01011 0110111111 1111011101 11011111 1110011101 1001111001 111100 111111100110 1111111110 101101010110 1101111101 110111101 110111 1101001111101 1111101 1101001111 011011101 01111101 111001 0110111011 1001110111 110110111 111101111 1101010101 11011 111111110101 1110111 11101101 111011111 11111111 0110010 110101110100 110111011 1100011101 11010101 110110111 1101010 110111101010 110101011 1101111101 11111011 111111101 11011 11111011011 1101100111 111111011 1111111 11111101 11011 111101111111 1101011101 11010011 1101001101 11111111 111100 1111011111010 11101001100 11100110 1101110001 110001101 110111 1111111101 100111011 11111101010 11111111 1101011111 011110 01111101101 11111101 110111100 1101110001 1111000111 11011 11011111010 11010111000 1111110 10100111 11111111 1100100 1111111110 11110111000 111101100 110101001 110111000 110100 110111111 1111101010 11101010 11110101 111111101 111110 1101011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 210
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, blev, den, de, med, sig, en, nne, det, i, vi, hvor, til are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, naar, da, vi, de, hvor, alt are repeated.
The author used the same word den 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 de, rdet, nne, iet, re, rte, d, v, rne, det are repeated).
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