This is an analysis of the poem Pjalte-Krejsten that begins with:
Hans Kjortel er laset i Sømme og Foer,
hans Hat er ej ganske ny;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab XbXb XbXb XXXb XbXX XbXb XbXb XXXX abXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101111 110111 11010111 111001 11111000 1110101 111111001 1101001 11010111 1101111 01011111 1111001 01011111 110011 1111110 11011001 111101111 111001 1101101100 1110010 1101111101 1101011 1111101 11011001 110100110 11111 11011010 11011001 11111111 1110001 111111111111 1101001 111110101 1101111 11010111 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; hans, er, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hans, han are repeated.
The author used the same word saa at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word rye at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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