This is an analysis of the poem Ronceval that begins with:

Højt paa Pyrenæers Fjælde
Red vi over Sky med Sejr....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXb XXXX XXcX XXXd efXX gXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa ghgX XbXb XfXX XbXb XXXX XbXb XXXX XeXa XbXb XXXX XXXX XiiX gXgd iXXX hXXX XcXX XXXX XdhX dXXX XXXe XXXX XfXX XaXX Xdid XdXX aXXX XiXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001 1110111 1011111 11111 111101 1011100 101010 1011101 101110 1111110 11101010 111100 1011101 10111 111101 1000111 110110 111100 11111 101101 1100101 111101 101100 101101 111110 101101 1111100 111101 1001011 11001 11100110 101111 100111 111101 100111 1110001 11111110 1010001 1111000 1110001 1011010 1110101 11101010 11110 11111110 1100101 10111110 1111101 101010100 1001101 01101110 011110 1111010 1111111 10111010 10111 10101010 1110110 10011010 10101110 1111101 1110101 101101 10111 1111000 1111101 1110100 1010111 11111 1110011 111101 101111 1001110 1011101 1011111 1011111 11111010 111011 111110 101101 10011 111111 111100 10111 111001 1011111 10101111 1111111 10101110 111100 11100010 101101 1110111 11110 1110101 1001101 1100101 11110 101101 1011111 1011110 1011011 1111100 101111 1111010 11111 11110010 1110111 1011101 1011111 1111101 1011100 111011 101111 111111 1111 1010111 1010001 1010001 1010001 101010 1010010 10111 10101100 101110100 11111 0011010 1001100 1110111 1110111 1111101 101100010 110011 1011111 101111 100111 11111000 1110101 1111110 1011100 111101 1110101 1111100 1010111 101110 100111 0111111 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 37
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 148
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; med, d, og, hvor, er, h are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words var, er, som, aldrig, hvor, der are repeated.

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

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