This is an analysis of the poem Historiens Sang that begins with:
Som dybest Brønd gir altid klarest Vand,
og lifligst Drik fra dunkle Væld udrinder, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaX XXXXXXXX bXbXcXcX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101 11011101100 110111111 110111110 110101111 1110111100 1001011111 11010101000 11111111 110010101 110001111 11011111 1101110100 111111111 110111111 111111101 101111111 1110111 0101110111 11101111 111111001 110001011 11001111 11010111 111111111 10111111111 1111111 1101110 111111111 110111110 1101011100 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i, st, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, naar are repeated.
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