This is an analysis of the poem Æ Gammel Smed that begins with:
Og her kommer a med mi' Hywl og mi' Kjep
og mi' Hej-hej-ha og mi' Haah -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10100111111 111111111 111111111111 1101111 1101111111 111111111 1001111101 1111111 11000101010 111111111 10111011011 11001111 01011001111 111111111 11011011111 1011111 01101101011 111111111 11011101111 11111101 1011111011 111111111 101111111 11111011 11011010111 111111111 1101101001 1011011 0111111111 111111111 1111111111 11111111 01011101011 111111111 11111011011 1110011 101111011 111111111 1110111111 1111011 11001011011 111111111 1101111011 1111011 1100101111 111111111 111101111101 1111111 11001111001 111111111 11101111111 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, mi', dje, for, i, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, saa, for, mi' are repeated.
The author used the same words a, de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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