This is an analysis of the poem Gamle Gunhild Fra Barselstuen that begins with:
Gamle Gunhild fra „Barselstuen,"
Boer paa fjerde Sal hos Fruen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011000 111111 11110 11111 1110111 1111111 101111 1010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hun is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hun is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de is repeated).
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