This is an analysis of the poem Forsvar that begins with:
Vil man en Skjald bebreide,
At Elskovs søde Magt...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXXXbX XXXXXc XbXaXX XdXXdX XXXXXb XXXXXX cXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXeXbe XXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 11011 110101 111001 110100 01101 1111110 1001011 110011 1101110 100111 01101 101111 110111 10011 1101000 01011 11111 11111 11001 100110 110010 11001 10101 110110 11111 011000 110000 01101 11111 111110 110011 110011 111010 1111 10101 110011 11111 11010 1111000 11110 110111 11111 11001 11010 110100 110101 111111 110110 11001 11011 1101010 110001 11111 111011 111110 11111 1111111 111111 0110100 11011 110110 110101 111101 111101 110111 110011 111101 111101 101111 110110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, som are repeated.
The author used the same word den at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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