This is an analysis of the poem Alfepoesien that begins with:
Oberon svang sig op paa mit Skød;
Der sad han med Spir og Krone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXX XXXXXXXc bXXaXcXX XcXXXXXd eXeXXdXX eXeXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111111 11111110 010111001 1100001 10110111 11011110 11110100 1111110 111101111 111001 11111101 1001111 101111100 1111100 11110111 1101110 101111011 1111100 11111000 11011110 11011110 11101110 1101111111 11011000 1101111111 11101110 10011010 111110 110101101 110110000 111111101 1111010 111100111 111111111 11111001 110111 010110101 1101010 1111111 1001111000 11011101 111111 11111111 1111111 110111001 110101 1111111 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; paa, det, var, hun, sin, den are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, det, den are repeated.
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