This is an analysis of the poem Skjøn Ellens Elsker that begins with:
Asbjørn løb fra sin Hytte
Alt til den vildeste Ørk,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXABXc XXXXABXC XXXXABXC dXdXABXc XXXXABbC XXaXABXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 111101 1101101 110111 111101110 10111 1001001 11111 11111110 1110101 10110010 110001 111101110 10111 110111 11111 111101 111111 110101 1101011 111101110 10111 111011 11111 1111110 110111 11111110 1100110 111101110 10111 1111011 11111 0111110 1111111 111110010 1011101 111101110 10111 11011001 11111 11110110 1011110 1111110 1111110 111101110 10111 1010101 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; han is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word han is repeated.
The author used the same word han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dig at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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