This is an analysis of the poem Valravnen that begins with:
De gule Silkeseil, som Vinden fylder,
hiemlede bugnende den lette Snekke....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,5,5,5,6,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
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- Amount of stanzas: 49
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 382
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; guld, med, han, sig, saa, er, og, hun, du, da, i, den, jeg, mig, ver, nu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, som, jeg, de, det, din, nu, han, saa, du 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines len, ie, de, nder, e, lge, ver are repeated).
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