This is an analysis of the poem Den Fangne Holger I Spanieland that begins with:

I Modgang lo jeg vel mangen Gang,
Og tit jeg sang i Elende;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXab cXXX XXXX XXXX XXcX dXdX eXef XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXg XfXf XXXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111101 1111110 110111101 110111 11011111 1111000 11111101 111110 11011011 1111110 111111001 11011010 110101111 1111101 10111111 111110100 1100111101 1101011 110101011 11011110 11001111111 11111 11111111 111110100 11011001 111110 1111111 1101101 11111111 10111110 11111111 1111110 1111100110 1111111 111111001 1111110110 1101011110 1101110 1111101101 110101000 011101101 0111110 11110110 1011111 01011110 011111 0111011 11101 1111111100 111111 11111111 11111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; jeg, d, han, de are repeated.

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

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

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