This is an analysis of the poem Landnamsfart that begins with:
Hvad er det for en modig Flok,
Som over Nordhavs-Vovens Skum...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXXX XXXXXbbXbX XXXaXaXXXX XXaXbXXbXb XXcXXXXXXX bXbbXXXXXX XXXXXXXdXd XXXXXccXcX XXbXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 11010101 1101111 11001111 1100010 1011111 1011011 111100 1111001 110110 1011110 11110001 11011101 1101111 11011 111111 111111 11111 110111 1101 10110100 110111 111101 1101111 110110 101101 11011111 11110 1111101 1101110 101101 1111101 1111111 1111111 111101 10111111 1101110 11111 11111111 111101 11011100 1111011 1111101 1111101 1100010 1110001 1111101 111100 11111101 1101010 1101111 1101101 1100011 1101111 11011 110111 1101111 111101 1101111 11111 1011111 1101111 1101111 11110100 1101110 11110100 1111111 11110 111111 1111110 1111111 11011100 11000101 11011100 11111 1101111 11010101 110111 110011 11110 1111101 11111 101111 11010100 011010 1110110 1100011 1100010 1110101 1101000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, fra, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words med, og, som, en, hvor, at are repeated.
The author used the same words hvad, det 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 d is repeated).
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- summary of Landnamsfart;
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