This is an analysis of the poem Trines Ko that begins with:

Nu skal du ha' din Havrekjærv,
og jeg skal ha' min Nætter; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXb bXcXXXaX XXXXXXXX XaXaXXXX XXbbbXbX dXdXXXXc aXXbXXXX XbXXXeXe XXXXXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 111111 1111101 101101 1011111 111111 11011101 11111 01011111 1111010 11011101 1001110 11111111 011111 11111101 11111 111100 1111010 10110100 1111110 1111111 111110 11111111 1101110 01111111 11101 1101011 110111 10111101 110011 11110111 11010 110110110 11111 110111 10011 1101111 1111110 1101011 1111 1101101 0110010 110111 1101000 1011011 111101 111111 11111 10011111 1101110 10110111 1111110 11011100 11111 1111111 111111 11011100 110111 1100011 111101 1101101 110111 1111101 01111 10111111 11101 111111010 11101 11011100 101111 11111000 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; du, og, mig are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, nu are repeated.

    The author used the same word nu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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