This is an analysis of the poem Thors Fiskeri that begins with:

Ormen laae paa salten Bund i Havet,
Strengt i Dybets Fængsel avet,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXa XXX XXX bXb Xcc XXX XbX XXX XXX XXX bbX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XaX XXX XXX XXX XXa bbb dXd XXX XXX XXX eee XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXb XXX XXX XXX XXX XbX Xcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101110 1110110 1100100 1011111010 111100 11101110 110111100 1111101 11111 11111101 11111 1011111 101111010 1111101 10101110 10111101 111101 1111101 111110110 10101010 10001100 1111101 1111010 111101 1011101000 11101110 11001000 101111 101111 1001110 10101111 1110011 1001101 11111110 1011110 1011010 111111000 1011010 1011110 10110111 1010011 111011 111011110 10011100 1111010 101110011 1011010 1111010 100111010 10100010 1101110 111010111 1111110 101100 10111011 101101 111010 10101111 101011 101110 10101111 111111 11111 1111111 1010111 1011111 111110111 1011101 1011110 1010111110 1110110 1101110 10111010 1011110 10100110 11101111 111110 1001101 011111110 1011110 1111000 111111000 11011010 1101110 11101111 111011 101011 11111111 111011 1110111 101100010 1011110 10101100 111111 1011100 1000111 101011110 1011110 1101000 101110101 111101 1011101 1011111 111001 1011101 101111101 101111 1011101 1010101010 11101010 1110110 1010111110 1111110 10100100 10101011 1100010 1011110 101110110 11101010 10111010 11010100 10111110 11001000 1010111010 111110 110111 101011110 1010101 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 43
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 129
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sig is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word kan is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ver, lde, fter, ie, lte, ved, lve, lger are repeated).

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