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

Hvi taler sig den Ridder træt,
Og fægter med sin Fjerbaret,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXabaX XcXbXXX ddXbXXX eeXXXXX XXXfXfX XgeXXXe bbXXXXX aaXXXXX XXcXcXc bXXchXh XXXbXgX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX ffXXhXX XbXXXXX XXXXXXX XbXXXXX gXgXXXX XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 1111100 111110 10111101 1111100 11011111 1100010 1101111 11111101 111100 1101101 111101 111111 110100 011111 11111111 111111 1111011 11111 11011111 110111 110111 1011111 110111 110111 11111 1101111 11111 01001111 11001111 110111 1111111 11111 1001111 110111 1111101 11110101 111101 110111 11010 11110100 11011 11011101 10110111 111111 1111011 110111 1101111 11111 1111101 11001101 111111 1111011 111101 111111 101101 1111101 1111101 11010 1111010 111111 111100 110110 11001001 110101 11010 1101111 111101 1101111 110101 111111 11111101 11111 111111 111101 11001101 11011 11111101 11011100 1111000 11111101 11110 0111101 111110 11010101 11111100 111111 1111101 110011 11111101 1111 110111 1111101 01111 1101101 11011 11001111 110111 11111 011111 111111 110111 0111 1111111 1111 11110111 11011111 111110 0111101 1111110 11011101 1101110 11011101 1100111 111100 11111101 111100 1101110 1111100 111101 11110001 111101 1101111 110111 111111111 111111 1110111 110111 111110 11010011 111110 1110111 1101110 1110111 11010100 1101110 1111010 1111100 1100011 111110 1101111 1111111 111000 111111 1101000 1110111 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 147
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; du, det, de, fra, i, hver, en, og are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fra, hver, og are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).

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  • summary of Elskovsseglet;
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  • history of its creation;
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