This is an analysis of the poem I Riddersalen that begins with:

Naar blygraae Skyer skjule
Midsommers Himmel blaae,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa XXXXXXXX bXXXcdXd XXXXXXXX eXXXaXXX XXXXfgXX XXXaXehe XXfXhXiX XXXhXXjX XXXXXXXX XkXXXXkX eXbXXXXX XXXXXXXk bkXkXXXX XXXXXaXX XeXXXXXX XaXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXiXXd XXXXXlXX XeXeXXaX XXkXXXXX jXXXeXlX XkXkaeXe XXXXXXbX XaXXXegX XdXdXXXX caXXXXXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 100101 11011 11011 11010 110111 100110 10111 110111 110111 1011 10111 11111 10111 1100010 110111 1100010 111111 1111010 1101 110111 11101 110110 110101 100110 1101 110111 111001 1100110 110011 111100 1111111 1100011 11011 11111 11111 1111 111101 110111 11101 1100100 110111 111010 11111 11110 11111 110011 11011 111110 110110 11111 11111 11111 111111 10101 11111 110011 11111 11111 11001 110111 111101 1111101 111101 1111100 1111 111110 11111 1111 11111 1111111 110111 11111 1110 1111110 11111 1101100 11011 1101100 11011 111111 11101 111110 111001 111110 110001 111011 101111 1100010 111100 101010 11111 1101110 111111 11111 111100 111100 11011 110111 1010001 11111 111011 110110 110001 11110 11101 11101 11111 11111 11011 1110110 10011 111110 111111 1101110 11101 1111110 11111 11110 1111 1111100 11111 011110 01111 111111 11111111 11111111 11111 111010 10111 010111 1111 1110011 001111 111110 11101 111010 111100 111110 11011 011110 01111 111101 0110011 111110 11111 011110 10111 1110011 11101 111 101111 110111 111110 11111 111 111110 11011 1101110 101110 111010 111101 111110 1110 11110 11101 1101101 11110 110101 110111 11010111 111 11001 110101 111101 110111 1101111 11111 1101110 110101 111011 11010 11111 11111 11001000 100111 11111 111111 111101 1111 111010 10011 1111100 11011 11011 010111 1111110 1111 111110 11101 11011 110101 1101010 11111 1111010 101110 100111 111000 111110 111111 1101110 110111 111110 11101 1100110 11011 1011010 110111 1111100 111001 111011 1001010 1111 010011 11011100 11110 11110 111101 1111100 111101 1111110 1111 111101 111110 1111100 111010 111111 110111 1111110 10001 0111110 110111 111101 11111 1111100 110101 111111 1010101 1111110 11111 111111 11111 11110 11101 11111 100110 11111 110101 111101 111101 111110 1111 110010 011101 11010101 10111 11111 111111 1101110 1111 10110 1101 01111 01010 110110 11111 111101 111100 110101 111001 11111 110111 1111111 101010 1111010 1001 111110 111011 110110 110111 1111100 11111 110111 110111 1110 110111 111110 111011 1101101 11011 11011 11011 1100110 110111 111011 1111 110010 1101 1101 11011 1101110 11110 111100 11111 11011 110001 1101110 110011 100111 11111 1101101 11001 111010 11011 11111 11111 111101 1111 1101100 11101 1111100 1111111 110111 111111 0111110 1011 11110 1101 1111110 11001 110101 111111 1111010 110100 111110 11111 1101110 01101 11110000 0111 1111110 110111 1011010 1111 110110 11111 1101110 1101 1101110 110111 1101110 111011 11101110 111101 111110 111010 010110 11011 1011100 110111 111110 110111 11011 110111 1111111 11101 111110 0101 1110010 11110 11011 1100 110110 1111101 1111 10011 11010 111101 101010 11111 1100100 110101 110110 110001 01011 101101 10111 110111 1111 1111 11100 1011 111010 110111 11110 110011 01111 110101 111100 111101 1101110 1111 11111 100111 1111100 1101 111110 11110 11111 11011 1000110 11111 1101001 110111 111110 111100 111110 111101 11111 11111 110111 110101 1111010 111101 0101110 1111 110111 11101 1110 11110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 55
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 440
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; v, i, d, og, mere, de, var, min, o, hun, hans, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, i, hans, du, de, han, en, og, min, o, paa are repeated.

    The author used the same words han, mens, jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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