This is an analysis of the poem Peer Og Maren that begins with:
Aa hør nu, go'e Venner, om I vil gi' en Pægl,
en Vise skal jeg synge jer om Maren og mig sælo',...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXX bbXXX bbaaX XXbbb bXcXX XXXdd XXXXX XXXXX eXXee XXXXX XXcXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111111 111111110111 110111 110111 10111101110 11110011110 11101111110 111100 111101 111111001110 1111001111 11101111011 11101 11011 110111101101 1100010111111 110011111111 111111 11011 110111110111 111111110111 11011110001 11011 11101 111111111110 1101010110100 111111110110 1111111 11111 111111010111 111010010111 01110111110111 110101 110111 0111100110101 110110111101 1101101101 111111 11111 111111101111 111110111111 11111111110 111100 111101 111110110111 111101011111 1111110111110 10011 110100 11111111111 1101100010111 1111111111111 11011 11101 1111110110110 1110111011001 111110111010 11110 11111 111110011011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; om, og, ded, par, et, blev, saa, de, var, vi, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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