This is an analysis of the poem Biskop Absalon that begins with:
Til Knud Dankonning, tog sig, stolt og prægtig,
Hiin Keiser Rødskjæg, for sligt Bud at sende:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110011111 110111111 1110111111 110111100 11011111 1101111111 111101111 1111111 1011011111 1101111101 11110111 1111111001 1101111100 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; med is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gtig, nde, re are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word gtig at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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