This is an analysis of the poem Androkles Og Løven that begins with:

Hed som en Ovn,
Rødgul som Stenen, der brændes i Ovnen,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXabbXXXXcXXXXXdXaaXeXXXXX aXXXXXXaXfX XXXXXXgXX hXXXXXiXXXXXXX XXXaXXXaaiXXX XXXdaXXXaX X XaXjXadXXXeceXeX dXXhXXXXkXXXkXXX lXdXXaXmXaXX mXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXkk XXkXXXXf hgXXXXhXXXbXXXXnnXXhXjX XcbXXbXXXXXXX XfXX XXXaXXXXXhXXhhXX bXbnbXnn XXXXXX XXXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,26,11,9,14,13,10,1,16,16,12,7,12,8,23,13,4,16,8,6,8,9,2,12,8,13,18,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 111011110 11111101001 101101 11111111 11010 001011 111001011 11101011 11110 001011111010 11010 11101011111 101101011011 111001111011 111 111011111 10011 100110 110010 11101111101 11111 1010111111 1101101001 1101110101 1010100100 10101100101 11001111 101111 101101 11001110 111111 110110111 1101 101111110 111110110 11100 11111100 1111010 110101 1011111101 110110111110 11011000 1111111 1101111001 110110010 111110110 01010111 111 1111011 110111 110111 11111111 11000110 111110 1110 1111001111 111001111 100111101 111111001 100011001 111111111 110001111 10110111 100101 110101 1101111101 110111001 011110110 11010111 010111101 11010111 1111110101 101101 10101 111111111 111110 1111001 1101100 11101111 110101101 10101 1101011 101101 11011111 110101111 10110111 1101111 1101011 11 111110100 1110001 1111 111 1101101101 111111 1011 101010 111111011 1111010 1011111 111 1101101111 111011010 1101 1011011 1101110111 111110111 11111100 1111011 11110 11101111 11101111 0111 111111111 111111 11111101 110101101 1111101 11011111 11111011 101011001 1101111 1111 11110110111 11001001 1111010 1111111 101101101 101111011 11011 11110111 110010110 111101 10010111 1111011010 110111101 10111010 111001101 110011011 11111 1100100011 11111110 110101 1011000 11001110 01111111 1110111 11110 100111111 100101110 110111 11011111 11101110 111110 10111 111101111 111101111 10011110 1101011 11001001 11110110 1100100010 10100 11011100 11111110 111101100 11 110010 111010 111010 1110110010 11011101 1101010 1111001 11110 111 10011 1111010 111101 1111001 111010100 1111011 1011100 1111 01101 1100101110 1101101101 1101011000 11010 0011 11011 1101111 1111 10101001 1110010101 10011 11101100 1011 101110111110 10110 110111011 1010101 111101111 1101111101 10010 1001011001 0111111110 1001110 1010011110 1010011 11011011000 1111111 11010001011 100001101 1101010011 111111 11101001010 110101000 10110110010 10110111 1010111110 101110111 110101111 101111 10001111 1001110 110111110 111110 10111 11101010 11101011010 1111011011 111010111 11111101 11011011011 1100101 110101000 110 110111110 110101 11110101 1101101 1101101111 1111110 111111 110111111 1011110101 11011010 110110010 111011011 01011010010 101101 1011110 1100101 1101 1011011101 101101111 10010010 11010010 11111010 1010 1101 0101011110 101 110111001 11011010 01010001010 01010000010 10101 1001011 111 011 101111010 10110 11011110 11111 1101111 111110 10010110 1111010110 11 11101111001 11011110 1111011110 100110100 11111011001 11101111 11011101 1111 11111110111 11001001 0111010 1111111 101101101 101111011 11011 1101011 11111111 10110010 1001110 1101111110 1110111 1 1111100110 1101111010 1011001 1101101 1101010010 1111011 11100110 110111010 101110 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 314
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; som, og, en, han, hans, hvor, den, det, l, hinanden, der, sig, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words over, saa, som, og, hans, hvor, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines g, nger, re, je, ndes, le are repeated).

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