This is an analysis of the poem Thor I Helheim that begins with:

En Saga fast utrolig
Jeg nu kundgiøre maa:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX ababXcXX deXXXXXX XXXfXXXX XXXeXXdX XXXeXXXX XgXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XbXXXXXX XXXgXXhX XXXeXXiX XXXXXecX XXXXXfXX XgXXhXXX XXXXXXXX eXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX aXXXXXXX dXXXgXXX dXXXXeXX eXXgdXXe XgXXiXXX XXXeXXXX XXXXXXXX aXXjXeXc XXXXXXXX XXXXXiXi deXXXXXX XXh
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100 11101 110110 1011 11011 111100 110010 11111 1111 111101 11101 11111 111101 111101 110111 01111 11101 111101 110101 1110 111110 111111 111110 11111 111111 11110 11110 11111 11101 10111 11111 11110 110111 101100 110101 01111 0110 11011 01111 11111 11111 110111 111100 111101 01101 10111 01111 11101 0111 11101 100100 01111 010100 11110 011110 110110 01100 11110 11110 111111 01101 10111 011110 111011 11111 111101 10010 110101 110011 100111 111110 10110 11111 11111 111111 110101 110110 11101 11110 111111 11011 110111 11110 111111 111111 11110 11011 110101 11111 111111 111110 110001 110111 110101 111101 111111 111100 01101 11100 111100 111100 110101 111110 11111 111111 111001 110111 101011 1111010 110101 1111100 01001 110101 111110 110101 111110 100101 11011 111110 110101 111101 111101 11111 11101 11001 111111 100101 11011 111101 110101 111101 11010 101100 11011 111110 111110 11111 101101 11110 111101 111111 1111 11101 111111 111111 11110 110110 11011 1111010 11100 1101110 111111 10011 11101 01111 111111 110001 11111 110111 101111 11111 01101 011100 110111 01111 01101 110111 11111 11111 11011 111100 1110 111111 111111 110111 11001 11011 1101100 11111 111001 11101 111111 110011 11111 111110 110100 11101 11110 110101 11111 11011 110111 111111 11110 11101 11011 11110 1111 111111 11111 110010 110111 1111010 111101 111101 110111 110111 111101 10111 111101 11101 11011 1111 10100 111110 111001 110111 10111111 111111 101101 111101 11111 11011 110011 1111010 11111 111110 101100 10111 1110101 11111 110100 1111 111101 11111 111011 111110 111111 1111110 110111 11111 11111 111101 110101 100101 111101 110101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 248
  • 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; der, det, d, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, den, hvor, han, hun are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase den connects the lines.

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