This is an analysis of the poem Paa Borgen that begins with:
Hun sidder paa hans Borg, hun er hans Frue,
Hun styrer Huset — og han styrer hende;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaaa XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111011 1101011101 11111101 111101110 1101110010 10110100110 01011101110 11011101110 11011100010 111100110 1110111010 11111110 11111111110 11111100110 11110111110 111101110 111111111 11101110 101100111 11111111 11011011010 10111100 1101010111 1110111000 111011110 111111111 1010110101 1101011010 111101110 1101110001 11011111101 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hun, og, paa, er are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, og are repeated.
The author used the same word hun 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 ver is repeated).
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