This is an analysis of the poem Pouls Tale that begins with:

Vil De nu være stille i Stuer og Sale,
Saa siger lille Poul sin store Tale;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111111 11011111 10111010 1111111 11111010 110001110 11111111 111111 11111100 1111111000 110101111 11111111 1110111110 11111100 11111111 111011111 11111111 11000111000 1101101111 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 731
  • Average number of words per stanza: 149
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; fra, og, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word det is repeated.

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