This is an analysis of the poem Svinet Og Anden that begins with:

Hønen gaar saa vever og ren
og nipper til Gaardens Rendesten;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaa XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011 110110100 1101110 11101100 01111111 111110101 10111111 1101101110 10110101 10111101 01111101 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; og, i, det are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines je is repeated).

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