This is an analysis of the poem Ung Alver that begins with:

Det var ungen Alver,
Han gaaer i grønnen Lund,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXb XXXc cXdX XXXX XaXX XeXX XXXX fXXX XaXX XaXX XedX caXX XXXX XXXX XXXX fXgX Xhdh XXXX XXXX XXXa cXXX ifhX XfXf XXdX XgXX XcXX XXcX XaXX fXXX ffXf XXcX XIdX XIdi XgXg bXaX gXXX XXXX aaXX Xfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 11111 110110 11100 111010 01010 1101010 010011 1101010 110100 110101 11010 1111101 110111 111110 11010 11011100 11110 111110 110111 0111001 11101 0111110 11110 0111001 111101 110101 1100010 1101111 11111 111101 111111 1111011 1111 1101110 111101 1011101 101011 1101110 11111 1111101 101101 111110 111111 1111111 111101 111110 111001 11011101 11011 11111 111100 1101011 101100 110101 111100 11010111 111111 01111 111101 1101100 11111 110111 01100 11010111 111111 1111 111111 11110 110101 1101110 11111 111011 110111 110011 11011 1111101 11011 1110 1101 011010 110100 11110 111111 111111 11111 101111 110111 111111 111111 11111 110111 1101111 1111 111110 01111 1101100 110011 111110 11010 1101111 110111 1101100 11110 1111101 110111 11101 01111 11010101 101100 11111 11101 110101101 11011 101110 1101101 111111 111111 11001 110101 1111011 101101 011100 11011 101101 0101101 111110 11111 1101100 1111 110110 11111 11011100 1111 11010 111111 101110 11111 1011010 10101 10011101 111011 0111 01110 10111 1101 111010 11111 1010101 101100 11110 111101 011110 11111 101010 110001 11010101 111011 111110 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; r, den, h are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words h, i, hvad, som, de are repeated.

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

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