This is an analysis of the poem Valhalla-Legen. Første Brev that begins with:

I største Hast, ærværdige Herr Ven!
(Skiøndt stegen selv i tomme Titleriet,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXdXdXbXXXXeXXX XfXXXXXXdXXXX XXaXXXXgXXXXhXXXaXXXXXXddXddiddXXXXXXXXXaX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XfXX XXXXXXXXXejXdXdXcgXgkXkXXXXXXXXXXiXiXXXXXXXXhXXXddXXXXXhXdXXjhhkXhXXcXcXXXXcjXX XXXXX XXXXjdXXdggX XXaXXXXeXXXXXXXXhXdddXdXXX XjXjaXXaaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,13,42,17,4,79,5,12,26,28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 110111100 1101110010 11101111 110111100 1101111 111101101 110101100100 1111011111 111111111101 01011110000 1111011001100 1101100111 100101111 1111001110 1011111100 11111110101 1101110101 110011111100 1111101110 111 1111 1100111011110 110111 100110010 111101111001 110001100 110111010 111 1100101010 11010111 110110010 11000110010 111010010 111111111 1111111 1111101 1110111111 111110110 110101111 1110100 11001011 1111 11110000 1111111110 11100111 1110110 1111101101 11111001110 111101100110 11011111111 10101101111 110111110001 0111000111 1100011101 111101001 11110011 1101010000 10110111110 11111111 1110010101 111101 11 1110011101010 01110 1111 110110111 1111100 111111111 111000110100 1001100101 111011111 1111110101 1111101 111011 10 1111011110 1110011 01010111000 11101000 0101010000 111111111111 11111111111 111101111 111110111 11100110111 1110110111 1111011101 11011110 1111100110 111111 111111 11110101110 111111110 011111111110 011101111 1101101110 11111101 101111111100 10100110100 1011111100110 110111101110 11111110111 110111111111 110101110100 1110110111 1101111111111 110111101111 111011101001 11110110100 11110111110 111000 11010110000 1111111101 1111111010 1001111 111001110 111111011 1110011010 111001101 11111100100 1111110110 1111010111 110111111100 1101010101 111111110 111111101 11010111 1111110101 11011111 101101011 101111110 1110111101 11011000 1111111110 11000011 011001011 111111100 011101 11000 10110 01010 11011111101 11111101 1111111011 111111101 111110011110 11000100 100111100010 11010101 11001010 100101100 1100101101 1110 1011110111 111001 111110011 1100 111011011 1101101 10011100110 110111101 110101011 1100111111 1110111110 11111111 0101101 11111111001 11011111 1111101010 111001110 111110111 1010011111 11111111 11011110 11110101 1111 111000111010 11011011 11111100 1101111101 11110111010 111010000 110100111 1111011111010 11111101 11011110 1110110 11110010100 10011111 1111011111 1110101 11111111 11111011111 110111111 11100101 111110111 1111110101 011011110 111110111 11011101110 1111110110 1001100001 11111111 1101111 10011111 11011110100 11100100 11110101010 011101100011 1111111101 11 1110110111 1111111111 1111111111 1111 1101111100110 10010111 1011010110 1101111111110 1111011101 11010110111 1101111101 110111110 111110111 11 111111111 11111110111 11011011001 1101100 11010000000 11011011 110100011 1111111111010 100100110100 101101010 110011 1110100 111110100 11111111 1011011111 110101111 11111011 11011010101 111101111 111110001 11111110111 11110011111 1100111001 111111110011 11011011111 1111101000100 111111 111111111 11101001010 1111011111010 1111111 111101 11011101000 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 977
  • Average number of words per stanza: 190
  • Amount of lines: 260
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, og, han, det, min, der, den, vi, du, for, som, man are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvad, og, der, hvis, med are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Valhalla-Legen. Første Brev;
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