This is an analysis of the poem Thor Kommer Til Utgard that begins with:

Da laae ret for hans Øie
Den store Utgardsstad....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXa XbXXXXXX cdXXXcXX XXXXXeae XfXfXadX XXXXXXXX XXXgXXXX XXXXXXXg XXXXXXXX XXXXdXdX XXXeXXbX XXaebXbX XabXXXXd aXaXXXXX XXXXXXXX bhbeXXdb XXXijaXX XkXkXhXh XXXXXXXX bbXXXXXX XXjXXXXX XaXXXXXX XebXdXdX XXXgXXXX dadXXahX XXXXbXbe faXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XhX
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 11100 11111 111111 111000 11101 1101110 111111 11011 011110 01100 1111000 111100 10111 01011 11110 110011 11101 11111 111111 111101 111101 110110 111110 11101 111111 110111 11101 111101 111111 11011 110101 101110 1111 111110 11001 101111 11111 110101 11010 11111 11111 11111 11001 11111 111101 1110 110111 10111 111111 111101 111111 11101 11111 11011 111101 110110 11111 1111010 110111 111111 110110 11111 1111 11111 11111 01111 11011 111101 11111 11011 11101 110111 11011 11111 11111 11101 11110 101101 11111 11101 111101 111111 110111 1101100 10101 1100110 110101 11011 11101 111111 01011111 1111010 11010 111110 011011 01111 111101 110010 111101 110010 11011 111110 110111 11011 110101 111101 110101 110111 111100 11011 111101 11101 110111 01110 111101 11101 110101 101011 11101 111110 11101 1111010 110101 111111 111101 1101010 111010 111110 1101 111001 11101 110111 11111 110111 111111 1111 1111 111100 111111 11010 111111 101111 110111 11101 101101 11001 11111 110100 11101 111101 110011 101110 111100 01110 11111 110111 111110 11110 110111 1101110 11111 101110 110101 101001 11101 1111 11110 1110 111101 101110 11101 111 11110 110110 110101 110010 110111 1101010 11100 101111 111101 11011 11111 11111 11111 111101 111011 11111 110111 1111 11110 101101 11101 111111 11011 11101 111101 111101 111100 110111 110100 100111 110111 110110 0111 1111110 110101 1111 11101 110111 1110 1101000 111100 01011010 111101 111101 100111 111101 1101 110111 11011 110110 11111 11111 11101 111110 11001 11011 111101 110110 11101 101101 110010 111111 11111 110101 111111 01001 1111 111111 1111 111111 11101 01101 11111 111101 111101 110110 11111 111110 111101 1101010 1110 111110 111111 11101 11101 110111 1111111 011101 101101 111101 1001101 111101 1101001 110100 11101 111101 110100 11111 11010 11111 111101 1101 11011 1111010 11110 1111010 111000 11100 111101 1101110 111101 111101 11111 110101 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 36
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 288
  • 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; de, han, den, af are repeated.

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

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

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