This is an analysis of the poem Thor Besøger Jetten Hymir that begins with:

Gud Thor, den Understærke,
Var tidt i Hu saa gram....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXX XbcbXbdX XXXXXXXX XXXbXefe XgXXfdXX XXbdXhih XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX cgcXXXXX XXXbgXgX XjbXXXXX XXXXXdXd XjXXXXXX dXXXXXXX hXXXXXXX fXXXXXXX XXXXXXhX XXXXXXkX XXXXXXXX dXXXXXXX XXXXXbfX bXbbXXXX XaXaXdXX XXXXciXX XXXXXhXh XXbXXdXX XXXXXlXX XXXlXXXb XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 111111 111101 110111 110111 11111 11011 11111 111000 111101 1101110 111101 1111000 11101 111010 11101 110001 111101 111101 110110 11011 110111 110100 110101 1111110 11011 1101100 11101 11111 0111 11101 111111 11111 10101 110110 1101 1111 11111 01100 110100 101110 10111 11001 11101 111111 110011 11001 11111 111110 110111 111100 111100 1100100 111101 1111010 10111 110101 111100 11101 111100 11101 110111 11111 10111 101110 11111 111110 110011 111100 11011 110111 11110 1111010 11100 110100 11111 11111 11101 11011 110111 10111 111001 110111 11100 110111 111101 111101 11111 11111 111001 11111 11101 11101 11111 11111 11001 1101110 11111 1111110 11101 11101 110111 1111 110011 111010 11101 111110 110111 111101 110111 11111 01111 11111 1110 11111 1111 11111 101110 111111 110011 11111 11101 100011 111100 110101 11111 11011 1111 110101 11111 11111 10110 111110 110101 111110 110100 01111 01111 11111 1111 11111 110111 110011 111110 110111 11110 111111 111101 1110010 111110 1011000 111101 111110 110111 0101000 0101101 1111010 11011 111010 110111 11111 110111 11111 110101 1100110 10101 101101 110111 101111 111101 11111 11001 11011 111100 111111 110111 1101110 10111 110111 110111 11111 111001 11110 11101 1111 111101 111101 1111 111010 111101 11111 111110 11011 110100 111111 110101 1111110 110111 1101110 1011 1101010 110101 11111 11111 11111 11111 11101 110111 11111 111101 11111 11101 1111011 1111 11110 11100 110111 110111 11101 100111 111110 111100 111110 110111 110101 11010 111110 11111 111101 11110 110001 11011 110110 110111 11111 11111 1111011 11101 111101 11111 110111 110111 010101 110111 1111010 110111 1101010 110001 1011 110111 10111 110100 1110 1110 110111 01111 1101110 10111 1101110 110101 0111 11101 11011 1101 110011 111101 11101 11101 01011 111001 11010 110100 100110 11101 111101 111101 110011 101101 11011 110111 111010 110101 110110 100111 110111 1111 11111 111101 1011000 101101 1111010 1101010 11111 111101 1110 11101 110101 110111 110111 11011 11101 110111 01111 01011 11101 11101 110101 11111 11011 01101 111001 11101 1111010 11111 111100100 101101 111101 110101 110110 11101 111110 11101 111110 111101 111111 11111 111 110111 11101 110111 1101111 111111 11111 110011 11111 111111 11111 10111 110111 11101 11111 11011 110101 110001 1101010 111101 11011 111111 01111 01111 111101 1011 11110 11111 111010 11111 110101 110100 11011 101100 111111 11111 11111 110011 11111 11111 111101 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 368
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, d, med, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, det, med, og, er, der are repeated.

    The author used the same words da, naar 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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