This is an analysis of the poem Kongens Skygge that begins with:
Hans Haar var Snee, hans Ryg var bøiet,
Hans Knæ var skjælvende, var mat,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAXaXXXaBXbcXXXX X XXXXdXXXXcXXXXXXdXdX X XXXeXXXXXXXXXcXX X XXXXXXXXXXXX e XXXXXXXXXXfXXXXX e XAXXXXfXBXXXXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,1,20,1,16,1,12,1,16,1,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111111 1110101 1111101 11111100 11011100 111101110 1001111 1001111 1110100 1101111 11100111 11111101 1101111 1111011 1101010 1 11111101 110101 1111011 10001101 11011110 1111101 11111010 10011101 110001010 1101101 1110110 11001110 11011101 11110111 100111010 1111100 1111111 11110111 111111 111101 1 11111111 1101111 110111 11111101 1101111 110110 11011101 110111101 1100111 11010111 1110101 111001 11010101 11001101 0101111 11110100 1 100111110 111011 11011110 111111 10011111 1001111 11010110 1111101 11110101 1111101 11010111 111101 1 1111111 1111111 111011 1111111 1111011 1101000 11011101 111110 110110 111111 1111010 1100101 1111011 1101110 111011 1111101 1 11111111 111111 1111111 111110 10010100 110111 11111110 1111101 1001111 1101010 1111100 11001111 11001110 111111 10111100 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 106
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; var, hans, d, paa, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hans, ei, han are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase han connects the lines.
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