This is an analysis of the poem Ravnens Qvide that begins with:
Skjøn Jomfru taler til fangne Ravn:
»Du sidder jo luunt i Bure -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XbXb XXXX bbbX XXXc XXXX DXDX XXXe XXXX XXXX XfXX cXcX XfXf gXgX DXDX fXXe hXhX bXXX XXXX XXeX XXXb XXXX hXXX XXXX XXXa DXDX XeXe XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 0101111 111111011 110111 111111001 110111 111111 1101111 11101101 110111 101111 1110011 11111101 1011111 100111101 101111 1111110 110111 111111 111111 1111111 111111 010111101 1101011 111111111 11111101 010111101 1101101 111101101 111101 11101011 1111101 1111111 1101101 11011111 1110111 1101111011 111101 111101101 1101101 11111100 1111010 11010111 01100010 11010011 1111110 110110111 1111010 111110101 110111110 1101100110 11011010 1101111111 1111011 1011111 1111101 111111111 11111101 010111101 1101101 110111100 1110110 011101101 11011010 110111101 1101101 10111001 110111 1101101 110110110 11011100 111100010 110011 1100111 1111111 11011 110111000 1011011 1101011 111101 111110001 0101101 11010111 1101101 11101111 111111 11110101 1111111 111111111 1101110 1111111011 1011100 11110111 01011101 11110100 1101101 11111101 110110 110111101 011111 111111111 11111101 010111101 1101101 11011111 111110 1110111 11111110 111101110 1111110 11111101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; saa, d, min, jeg, det, i, dig, han, og, du are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, og are repeated.
The author used the same words da, en at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase det connects the lines.
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