This is an analysis of the poem Dandsen Ved Glumsø that begins with:

Hver Aftenstund, naar Faar og Ko
Var malket og var flyttet;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbc bXXXXXbXbX dXdXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXeXXXX XXXXXXbX XXXeXXXX fXbXXXXX XXXXXXXb XXXXgfgX XfXfXXhX bXbXXXgX XXbXXXXc hXhXhXhX XXXfbfXf XcXgXXXX aXaXhXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001111 1101110 11111111 1111110 11111101 11011 1101111 11001 1101111 111101 1111110 11101 11111101 1100110 11110101 1011110 1110111 11111 11011111 11001 011011 110111 1111111 1111 1101111 1101110 11111111 1101100 11111111 110111 1111111 11101 111011 1011010 110111 1101010 11111101 110101 111110 1111 1101111 110111 1111001 11001 11011101 101101 111111 11111 111110111 1101110 11111111 111110 1111111 110110 111111111 101110 11010101 010011 1101111 111001 1101111 11111 111101 11111 1011111 110110 0110111 11111 00110110 111101 11111011 111101 01011111 111110 1101011111111 11110 11110011 1101010 11110101 101000 11011100 111110 11110110 11110 1110101 11110 11000111 11110 11011101 111110 111011 111110 1101101 110110 1101011 110110 11011101 11100 11110101 111101 11010011 11011 1110001 110111 1101011 111101 1111011 11111 11100101 11111 011111 110101 111011 111110 11011101 1110010 11111111 01101 1111100 01011 1101101 11101 1110010 11111 101011 111010 111110 1101110 11011011 111101 1111111 101111 110101011 111110 11100011 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, var, hun, d, den, i are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Dandsen Ved Glumsø;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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