This is an analysis of the poem Et Indre Syn that begins with:
Han gik og kunde ikke sove
Den ældste Seer i vort Land, -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXbX aXXa XXbX XccX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 111111 11111111 11000101 1101111 1101101 11111 11010111 111100100 1111101 11011101 111101100 11101110 11010101 1101011 111101010 1111011 11011101 11111101 111111 1111010 10011101 1110011 1101111 11001110 111101 1101111 111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; han is repeated.
The author used the same word han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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