This is an analysis of the poem Tvekampen that begins with:
Han havde seet sin Haarlok,
Som den i Ungdom var,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- 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,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 111101 11111 110111 111110 11011 1101110 110110 11111 100111 11011 10111 111111 110110 111101 1111 1011110 111101 1101110 111101 111010 11011 11111 11111 10111 110101 11010 11011 111010 11001 110101 1101 1101110 1111 11010 10011 101011 11101 111111 110111 111 110111 10111 110111 1111110 1110 1101110 11101 111110 11111 1101100 111101 111010 110100 110111 111111 10011 111011 111101 1111 11101 11111 1111000 101101 10101 110101 111100 110011 110011 110101 11111 1011100 1101010 110101 11101 100111 1101100 11101011 11011 110111 100110 11111 110110 110111 1001110 11111 11011 11101 1111 1101 111110 101010 1111 110111 1111100 110011 110111 11111 1101110 11011 1111010 110110 111110 11001 1101110 11001 11010 1111 10011 11010 110111 1101110 11111 100011 11110 11101 111110 110101 1111 11001 111110 11010 110010 1111 101101 111111 1001010 1111 11010 1101 0101 11001 110111 110101 110110 11101 01111 10111 101101 110111 1101011 110111 1111100 111101 011110 01111 1101110 11011 111010 1111 11111 1101110 1011 11011 111010 110101 11111 111110 110001 11110 01111 10111 111101 111110 1101110 1101 11010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 168
- 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; som, han, var, de, hans are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, saa, og, hun, de, han are repeated.
The author used the same words der, de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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