This is an analysis of the poem Vaaren Og Freden that begins with:

Held os! Den Gamle med riimfrosne Lokker,
Vinteren, flyer:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXX XXXbXXXb aXXXXcXX XcXXXdXX XefXdXXe XdabggXX XXXXXXXX XfXfXXaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111010 10010 1010011010 1010 1011111011 1011 1110011 110101 100110110 101 1011101010 11 1011110000 10110 1010001010 1010011 11010110 1011 10111011000 1011 100101110 1111 1011011000 111001 100101111 1001 1011011111 1101 10010110100 11110 11011110110 101101 1011011011 101 101111011 111 1111010110 10110 101001110 1111111 10110110110 1011 101010010 111 100101101 111 110111101 1011010 1011011110 1011 111011110 111 111111101 1111 11001101 1010001 0111001111 1111 1011011110 1111 1111111101 111 1011111110 1011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; af is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nder is repeated).

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