This is an analysis of the poem Bjørnen Som Rytter that begins with:

En Bjørn engang gik ud paa Rov,
da traf den paa en Nordbag liden,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXX XbXXaXbaXccXX XXdX deeXeX XcXXcXXcX eXXXeXXXX XXXXXXXaX aXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXdXXXdXXX fXXfXXXXXeXXX XXXXXaXXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,13,4,6,9,9,9,26,13,10,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101111 111111010 1111111 111111000 1111101 11111100 111011 111111 11111110 1111100 11101110 111111 11111010 111101110 1110110 11011100 1111101 110110010 11011110 111111 111111 11110110 111011 11001101 111111 11101101 11111010 101111 1110111 1001111 1101011 1111101 11100111 11111110 11011111 1011010 100101110 111111 111110 1110010 11111 110110110 111111 111111 111001 1111100 111111 111100 111101110 1111011 11111100 1111101 11010101 1011111 1101111 1111111 1001111 11111011 11111101 11110010 1011101 1111111 1111111 11111100 11111111 1011101 1111110 111111 11011101 1011101 10011111 1011111 10110100 111111 1101111 1110110 1111101 1011010 11011101 11100100 10110110 1101110 11111101 11011100 111111 11111010 11111111 1111100 111100 11111101 111110 11011101 1111010 11011100 11011101 1111101 1111001 11110111 1111110 111001110 11011111 11011000 1111000 11000111 110101110 10110010 1110111 110101110 1100111 11011100 11011111 1101111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 113
  • 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; en, hop, den, og, saae, han, for, var, det, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, den, da, for are repeated.

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