This is an analysis of the poem Hvad Mener Du Med Dette Hulde that begins with:

Hvad mener du med dette hulde,
Ætherrene, anelsesfulde...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXbXXXXabXXXbXXbXbXbXbXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100111 101000 11111 1000111110 1111101 10001 100100 111101 111010 1101110 10111101 111100110 1111101 111111 111111 111110 1110010 111001 1001010 111111 11111 111111 1111101 11111 110111 1110111 11110101 111111 110110 1111110 11110 111010 11111000 11110 11101010 100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1011
  • Average number of words per stanza: 188
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; vil, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words eet, der are repeated.

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

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