This is an analysis of the poem Orpheus Og Eurydice that begins with:
Herr Orphevs var en Spillemand,
(som hele vide Verden veed),...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX bXXbXX XXacXX XXaaXX XXdeff cXXccX XXXXXb XXdXgX aeeaXX gXXXcX XccXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 111101 1111101 11111111 11010111 110111 11011100 1101101 01100100 1011110 111111 1111011 1101100 1101101 1110101 010111 1111111 1101111 11001110 1111101 111111 011101101 11111101 1100111000 110100101 1111100 1110011 1111110 11010111 1111111 101010101 110111 11111101 11111001 11001111 011011100 101111 1100111 101100 10111 111001100 101101110 1101100 11111000 1101111 1100110 110100110 111100010 11111101 10111010 10101100 11111101 111111 11110101 11110011 11011101 1111001 111110 100101 11111111 1111111 1111001 1011111 111101111 01010111 01110110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; forlade, farvel, en, var are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words forlade, farvel, og, de are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines flok is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word dandse at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase var connects the lines.
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- summary of Orpheus Og Eurydice;
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