This is an analysis of the poem Vor Ulla Laae I Sengen Og Sov that begins with:

Vor Ulla laae i Sengen og sov
Med Haanden under Øre,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXc aXXXXXXXcdXXXXbdXb XXXXaXaXXXeXXXfXXX aXXXXeXXXXeXXXXXXX eXXXXXXXXXXXXXgXXg eXeXfXdXcXeXXXXXXX XXXdXXXeXXXXddXXXX XXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXX XfbXXXXXXXcXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111011 110101 1101110011 11001 1001111 11111110 10110101 1111110 1111111 1101011 1110111 1101011 1010 111 1010101 1100 1110 1011 1011101 1100010 11011111 1001010 1100101 1010110 1010111 111110 1111101 111110 111100 111110 111 111 1110001 1110 110 111 11010111 111100 11011100111 1111000 1011101 10000100 10101100 1101110 1010010110 1111010 1110111 11110 111 110 110111 1000 1000 10110 11011011 11110 1011101 1101110 1101101 11111 11101101 110110 1111100 110111 111011 11111 100 11 1010101 10110 1100 11101 1100111 11111 11011111 110010 1111001 1011011 111101 01011 1111101 110111 110111 11111 11 111 1111111 1110 10100 1111 110111011 11100 1100110111 110010 1111111 11111 1110101 11111 1011101 11011 1011111 01101 101 111 111101 110 110 1111 110111010 1101110 1111111 1110110 1000111 111111 1011101 110111 1111110 110111 111110 110111 101 111 110110 1100 1110 1111 110111011 1101110 1111111 110110 111111 11110110 111111 1101110 1011111 1101110 1111111 1100110 111 101 111010 1110 1100 11011 10111011 11111 11011101 111110 111101 10111100 10010111 1101100 111111 111110 11111111 111100 1010 1010 1111111 1010 1110 11100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; og, en are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ring, nken are repeated).

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