This is an analysis of the poem Prolog that begins with:

De gamle Tider ere længst forsvundne,
Da Bardens Harpe lød til Skjoldeklang,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaXb XcbXcbXX XddXXcXX XXXXXXXX XcXcXbXX XXXbXXXX eXXXeXXX XfXXXXeX XffXXXbX XXXXgecX XXcXXXXb XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXbb cgXXXgbX XfXXfbhh ccXXXXXf bXXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101110 110111100 111001111 11110100 0111011 11111101 111111110 111110010 101110110 1100110001 1111111010 1101011101 1101011101 111011110 1100011110 11010010 1011011010 1111110111 0101110011 1100110110 10111101010 11011 1011011101 1111011100 1111111001 11110111000 1111011011100 11110111 110001100 0110110100 01110110 1001010100 11011001110 1101110111 11011001010 1101011101 111111111 1101111010 111110000 1011010 110011010 1111101110 11111101 1111111110 110110100 1111011110 1111111110 1101111110 11111111 10110111 111101110 1101111101 11110111 1110010010 110011101 0110111110 1111001000 1111011101 1110111110 110111101 101110111 1111001010 1101110111 1111011110 1111111100 11110101 1101110100 110101111 101100110 1101011101 11000111010 111110110 10101101 101010111 1101010110 01101111 11111011 111110101 11111101 1101110001 1111001010 111111100 111110011 11010011010 111011110 111110111 11111110 1011101010 111111100 1110111010 1101111111 111100011 11011110 1100011100 11111111 110110111 11110111011 110111011 1110110001 1111111101 111111010 110101111 1101111110 1101011010 101111010110 1111100111 111111110 1101100100 1111011101 111101101 11110111010 111111110 101001111 1101011101 110111101 111110100 111110011 1101110111 1111011110 11011011110 111111100 110111111 111111011 111101110 11111101111 11101101110 1110000101 1111100101 101001111 111000101 101100111 111011101 1101001101 1101111111 1100110 111001010001 11000111110 110110111 11101110 1101111100 11011101110 11111111 1101011101 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, i, for, og, som, behage, er, han, man, see are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, hvor, de, fra, som, behage, han, see are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word behage at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase t connects the lines.

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  • summary of Prolog;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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