This is an analysis of the poem Ridder Sommer that begins with:
Ridder Sommer han er sig saa mægtig en Mand,
Hans Gaard er god, og jævn hans Forstand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaXX XXXb XXXb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011111 110111110 101011100 1011111111 1011011011 111110111 10111110111 1011111111 111111011 1110111111 11100111111 11011111111 1010101111 11101101 111111111 1111011111 11011111011 1101111111 11101111001 1010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; han, er, paa, hans are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hans, han are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines paa is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word seng at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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