This is an analysis of the poem Marsk Stigs Døttre that begins with:
Marsk Stig havde blodige Daad fuldbragt,
Som aldrig vil gange af Minde,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX aXbXXcCc cXXXXaXX XXXXXcCc cXcXXXXX cXcXXXcX cXXXXcbX XXXXccbX XXXXcccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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
- Metre: 11110110 1101111 1111011010 11110001 11110111 11111101 01110 1111001 0111011010 0111101 10011001 1011111 11011011010 111111111 111101 01101011 1101011001 011111 11111111 1111101 11101111 1011110 110111 110100100 111110101 1110010 10111111 1101110 11011011010 111111111 111101 01101011 110110101 111101 1101011001 11000011 110110101 0111101 1111111 11111100 111111111 1111011 11010111 101011011 1100011011 111100111 1111011 1110101100 1101101101 1111111 111111000 111010 111101100 1111011111 1001111 111010110 11010110 1111011 110101101 11011011 1100111101 110111101 110111 110100 11011110 111010100 11101111 11011000 1111111 1101111 1101001 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; de, ei, den, saa, d, vi, r, og, dem, vov are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, og, han, saa are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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