This is an analysis of the poem King Mob that begins with:

King mob er en mægtig Potentat
Med hundred Arme og tusind Tunger,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXX XXXXXXXX bXXXcXXX XXXbXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXcXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100 110111010 110001100 110010 110110110110 110010110 11101100 110101100 110101011 11011111 110111010 01101101 10111101 111111110 110110011 101111100 111011001 11111111 1101111 101111 111111011 100011010 110101110 1001110 100101010 10001101 101001110 10101 101111101 100001100 11011011011 1101110 11011110 110010110 1100111101 110110000 101010110 11011110110 11010110010 110110110 11101111111 1101110110 11011111 110010110 0110111 011111000 1110110011 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; om, hans, den, og, det are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hans, fra, de are repeated.

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

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