This is an analysis of the poem Ridderens Frieri that begins with:
En dejlig, ung Ridder i Lunden mon gaa,
en Adelsmands Datter saa tænkte han paa....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011011 1100101111 111111111 111111110111 1101101011 11101011011 1111111111 110111110111 11011011011 1101011011 1100100101101 110111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; saa, hun, er are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word en is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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