This is an analysis of the poem Smeden Og Bageren that begins with:
Der var en liden Bye, i Byen var en Smed,
Som farlig var, naar han blev vred....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaX bbXXXXccXXX XXXXXXXcXXdXXbXXXcX XaXdXXXXXXeeXX bXXaX XX X XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,11,19,14,5,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111111 11011111 11111111101 110111 11100 111110 01111 01111111 11010111 1111 11011010 1101 110110101 110101100 11111 11111 1111010 11011101 1101111 11110101100 110101100 111111101 11100111001 11111010 1111110 1001010 110011100 11100 100 111110101 1111010 11111011 111011111 11011011011 11100111101 111101 1111111111 011110010 110110010 11101111111 11111110 11100110111 1101101 11110111111 110111011 1011111111 10101 1101111000 11010111 101000111110 1110010 1110011 1111111 101001 111001 10110110 110100110001 111101111101 111111 1011111 10001101 110111 11101101 11111111111 1100111 1100011111 11011100 11111 10 1011101 110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, var, d, jeg, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, farvel are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, r are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word k at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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