This is an analysis of the poem Lysets Engel Gaaer Med Glands that begins with:

Lysets Engel gaaer med Glands
Gjennem Himmelporte....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111 10100 1110100 10110101 1110101 11111 1110100 1111111 1010101 101110 1110100 101100110 1111111 111110 111111 1010111010 111011 10111 1110101 101110011 1111101 101110 1110101 111100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; seer is repeated.

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

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

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