This is an analysis of the poem Thor Drager Paa Eventyr Med Loke that begins with:

Et Sagn, fuld værd at høre,
Med gamle Runer staaer;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbXb cXXdXXXe cXXXfgXX XXXXXhbX XIXXXXXX cXcdXXXX XXXaXXXX gXXXXXXX XbXbXgXX XXXXXXXX diXXXXfg XgXgXXgX iXXXXXXX XXXjXXXX XXXXhghi XXcXXXXj hXXXcgcX XiXXXXXX jjXjXgXg XbfbbXXX XXXhXXcX XXXXXgcX XXXXXdXX iIXXXXXX XXXXXXXX hXXXXgXX XXXXXXXX XdXdXggX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 11101 101101 111001 110110 011101 1100100 11111 1101110 11011 110010 110101 110111 11100 11011 110111 11011010 11111 1101100 101101 111101 110101 110100 11111 1111 011101 1101 01101 110111 11011 110111 1110 111111 11101 110111 011111 11011 111100 111111 10111 101110 01111 1011110 1111 1111010 110111 11111 11011 1101000 11011 110110 11011111 10111 11011 111101 10110 111111 110100 11101 11011 100111 111111 111100 1111 1101100 1111 1101000 110111 111100 010111 110010 10101 110101 1111 110101 110111 101111 111111 110001 11111 010111 11101 111101 100101 11111 10111 11011 111000 111111 110111 110111 11111 11111 11011 100111 110101 11010 1101 11111 11111 011110 11111 11110 110100 10111 1101 11001 11001 100110 110011 10110 111101 1100110 0101 10111 110110 110011 011111 111101 111101 011010 11010 111110 11111 01110 0101 1111 11111 1111110 11101 10111 11111 1111110 1111 1101110 110110 11111 11101 11110 11011 101101 111011 01101 11111 1111110 111101 110110 11011 10111 1111 11100 10111 1111 100111 101111 110001 11101 11101 101111 10101 1111010 10110 111110 11111 1101010 101111 111010 101101 110111 111111 1110 11010 1111010 110101 1111010 110111 110101 11111 11101 11011 111111 101101 11101 111010 111110 11101 11111 11111 10111 11011 110001 110111 101110 110111 111110 11110 110110 11111 1111010 101111 11101 11101 10011 1111 1001 111101 11111 11101 01111 110101 110111 111101 11111 110100 10101 111111 11101 01111 01111 11011 111101 110111 10011 111100 11111 11010 111111 11111 10110 10101 1111010 11101 11100 111101 110101 1111 101101 111111 11100 11011 001111 01001 01111 110101 110111 1011011 11101 01011 11111 111111 1011 111101 110101 110101 1111 110111 111101 10111 11111 111111 01100 11001 111111 110101 1100111 110111 110111 111000 10101 111101 111011 11111 01101 11100 110111 110101 010011 1101110 11011 11010 111110 110110 10111 110101 11111 111110 1011 1111010 110111 110111 111110 1101 111111 11111 11111 111111 010111 11111 111001 111101 111111 11011 11111 1111 110111 11011 110111 11111 111011 111101 110111 11111 11111 11111 11110 1111 111010 11011 1001010 11101 100110 111101 11111 111101 110011 10111 1011 1111 111111 111111 11111 11011 1111 101111 11111 11111 10111 1111 110110 11101 110111 11111 100101 111111 1101110 111101 1101110 110111 111100 11111 111110 1111 11011 111010 110001 111001 01110 11101 100110 11111 111000 101101 1101100 111101 110110 11101 1011100 111101 1111110 1101 110110 111101 110111 11001 101101 11011 1111010 11111 111110 110111 111100 110101 100110 11111 111110 11101 11111 11111 1111100 1111 111110 11111 110111 110101 111101 011100 11110 100100 1011 11011 01111 100111 1011 01100 11110 11101 110101 11011 111011 1101 11111 110111 11101 110111 111111 10011 11011 1101 110001 11111 1101000 11011 1011110 110101 110101 110111 11111 11101 1101110 1111 111101 101111 0101110 11100 110110 101101 1111 110101 11111 111100 101111 110111 1110 11111 11011110 11111 11110 11111 1111110 11111 10110 01101 111110 11111 11111 11111 110111 01110 11110 11111 11111 110111 1111 111110 110110 01111 1101110 110101 01100 110010 110111 111001 11111 111101 110111 11001 11111 11111 111111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 60
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 480
  • 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; om, er, i, den, de, og, med, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words om, den, de, det, da, hans, han, til, med, i, snart are repeated.

    The author used the same words da, den at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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