This is an analysis of the poem Jægerens Brud that begins with:

Liden Karen hun sidder
Saa trøstigt ved sit Spind;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX ddXX X XXXe dXXX XcXc XfXf adXX XgXg XXXX X XXXX XXXb XXhX XeXX XgXg XXXX XXXX XbXb XCXX iXXX XfXX X XXXX aXXj XXXX XXbX XXXX XdXX dXXX hXXX k Xbhb XcXX XbXX XCXX XXXX dXXX aXXX LbXX LXXX biXi XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110 11111 110010 1101101 110111 1110101 1101110 110111 1011011 110111 1111000 1001 101101 11001 1101100 1001 1101110 1011101 1100110 101011 11101 110111 111110 0111 11101 110011 110111 111101 1 101011 101001 110100 10011 110101 110111 110110 111111 1101110 1111 11111 1111 1100010 10101 11111 11001 1100010 1011 11111 1110 111111 100111 110111 110111 1101110 11111101 1111110 111010 1 1111110 1110 1101100 010111 11111 111100 110101 110101 11011 111100 11011 111100 1010110 11011 11101 111001 1011110 101111 11111 11111 1101 111101 110110 1111 111111 11111 11011 11101 11111 110111 1101110 11111 110110 11111 1110110 110100 111111 1101 110100 11110 1101010 111111 11111 110101 1 111110 111101 11111 1111 11110 11111 11011 111101 111101 11111 110111 11011 11111 11101 1111 1111 111111 111101 111110 1111101 111011 111101 11110 110111 1111010 10101 1111 011 101111 11011 0101 10111 1 111110 11111 11000111 11111 1101010 111111 11101 111100 1101010 111 11111 11101 110110 11111 1110110 110100 111011 11111 11101 100010 111110 110111 11101 110100 1111110 100111 11110 11101 111011 110111 11111 1010111 111011 1101111 111101 1111000 11001 11111 1111110 110111 110111 111101 11111 11011 010111 1110 11110 110111 110111 1111 1111010 110101 10111111 101111 10111 110111 1111111 11111 1100100 1111 111110 111011 111101 11011 1 110111 101011 11010 11111 11010 111111 01101 1101 111001 11111 1101110 1101 11111 11110 11011 11011 111010 110101 1111010 11101 0111 10010 1100111 11101 11011110 11101 111110 100011 11011 111111 11010 100110 111110 110111 111111 1111 1 111111 110111 1101110 101101 111 1111 11111 111001 111110 11111 11111 1111 111101 110101 110111 110111 1101010 11101 110010 110110 110100 11100 110101 10011 1111011 010111 110111 01010 1111011 11111 11001 1110111 111111 110111 100110 111001 1101010 110001 111111 10101 111011 110111 110111 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 81
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 294
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; hun, det, da, og, de, saavist, ei are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, , og, saavist, som are repeated.

    The author used the same words hvergang, hun, mens, da, forst, og, sov 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 is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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