This is an analysis of the poem Kong Salomon Og Jørgen Hattemager that begins with:

For fattig Folk at spare Hovedbrud,
Der lidt af Tankens Lyst og gierne nyde vilde,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXaXX XXXXXaXXXX XXXXXXbXb XXXXXaXaX cXcaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,9,9,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111100 1111011111 11110111 11000111 1101010101 1001111111 11101101 1101110011 1110010101 101100110100 110011111 1101010111 11010110 1101111101 100111101 1101101 111011010 111100101 1100101110 1011100010 110111110 11001110110 11111111 1110101010 11111111 11001100 111111011 1100111000 1101101001 1111001100 1101111 111001010 10011101 111011010 110011101 11011010 110110111 1001100100 11111111101 11111101 111010001 1011110111 1101100110 1101111100 11110001011 11101100000
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, og, den are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Kong Salomon Og Jørgen Hattemager;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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