This is an analysis of the poem Bondestriden that begins with:

Grev Guntram og Grev Lanzelin
De hærgede forsande...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXa XbXX XXXX XcXX dXXX dXXX dXXX XXXX XXXX XXcX XXXX eXXX XbXX XXcX XXcX eXaX XXcX XXXX 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100 0110 11001100 11100 0100101 1101110 0101111 111110 01111101 110111 11010100 111111 11011100 010110 010101 111110 0111011 110101 1101011 11111 1111101 1111 11011100 1111 1111101 10111 1111101 110101 111111 110010 11111011 1101110 1111101 1111 111101 11111 11111101 110111 1110111 11011 01011111 111111 11011101 01101 11001111 11011 1111111 111101 11000110 1101110 1111010 1101010 1101001 11011 1101011 110111 1101111 1111010 111100 111000 11001101 110101 1111101 110011 11011101 11110 11110101 11011 1111101 11100 1101111 1110 1111101 111010 111111 11110 1110011 111101 1111011 11001 11011101 11100 11011101 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; for, og, de, med, i are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words de, og, hun at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Bondestriden;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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