This is an analysis of the poem Hejmdals Vandringer that begins with:

Han kommer fra Norden,
fra Landet bag Fjorden, ...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 96
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 768
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, og, blev, i, h, han, til, jeg, saa, br, hans, mod, du, som, s, de, en, fik, hun, gjemte, din, fra are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words til, da, hans, det, i, og, med, de, en, hvor, jer, du, jeg, vi, hvad, som, hun, din, han, dens, her are repeated.

    The author used the same words saa, og, han 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 m, mmer, fted, l, nd, ftet, ber, jen, lden, der, d, kker, lken, de, nder, rne, en, ve, os, fter, lder, n, sset, g, je, mme, rker, et, b, s, ngsel are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word nd at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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