This is an analysis of the poem Stambogen that begins with:

Der levede for hundred Aar
I Dans Elysium en Hertug uden Mage,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXbXXc cXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXdXeXXXXXXXaXXaXX XXXXXXXcddf XXfXXfXeXXXXXcXX XgXgXXXgXXXbXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,23,11,16,20,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101 110100110101 1101111111 111110110 110101100 110101001 111111 11010010 1111101 1101011 11100010 1111110011 11111110 110 100 110 11001000010 11110000 11011100 1101000 11010110000 111110110 1110110111 1100111110 11100111110 110111 11111111101 1100111000 111101 1101100100 1101111 111000110101 11011111101 111111 110010110 01010110110 11011110111 11011110 111101011 111001101110 101011100110 1111011111 1000110101 11101110111 110001111 1101111100 11110101110 111110101 1111110110 11001100 11011111 1110111010 11111011001 10100111 10110110111 11110010111 111110 1101111001 111110101 1111101101 10101111 10111111 11 1110101 111111111 1110111 1111110110 11110111010 111001101 1101011101010 1111011101111000 11111111011 11100110010 11010100011 11111110 1110111101 110011111 101111011 11111110 111101110110 11001110111 11101101 11011111 111101010 1110111101 11101101101 111011111 1111111001 110001011 11011111111 11001011100 101111 110000111101 1011110 10111100111 1111111111111 111111110 11011110 111010101 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 552
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; i, var, og, hans, han, min, den are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, var, hvis are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, re are repeated).

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  • summary of Stambogen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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