This is an analysis of the poem Stensamlersken that begins with:
Hvi vanker du gamle Kvinde dér
paa Agren agter og frem?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXbX XXXXXXXc XXaXXXXc XbXbXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001110 1101011 11000011 1001011 1100111101 1011 100101111 110110 110101001 1111011 11010101 11101 11111011 1011 1011101 01001 11111011 1001111 1101111010 110111 11111111 1011 11111111 11011 11011111 1101011 11011111 1001101 10111111 1011 111101111 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; hun is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hun is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sten at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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