This is an analysis of the poem Hedens Degn that begins with:
Saa synger jeg nu om en gammel Degn,
der saa langt over Lyng og Hede...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXa XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXXXXXX XbXXXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111101 11110111 1101111101 110101111 1111 1111 111101011 1111 11011110 11110111 101110111 01110111 111 1111 111101111 1111 110111111 11111011 110111111 11111110 111 111 11101101 1111 111111101 110111000 1100001110 1111111110 111 1111 11111101 1111 11111011110 1111111110 1111101111 111111110 11010 110110 111011110 110 11111111 11100110 111111001 11011100 1111 11110 110101110 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, rning, den, paa, min, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, den, min are repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rning is repeated).
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