This is an analysis of the poem Eselet Og Bonden that begins with:
En Esel vant til Byrder og Slag,
Bar, i den Troe at det saa skulde være,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXXbXbXcXXXXdbXccXXXXXeXfXfXXXXXdXXXXXXaXXeaXe XXXXXXXXXXXXbfXfXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011 111111111 10010111 1111111 1111111011 1111011 11010111111 110111100 10111100 110111111 11110110 111111 11110110 110111111 11101110 11010111110 11011011110 10111111 11100011010 1111111 1111011101 111111 11111111100 11011011 111100110011 11011101110 11111011100 10010100 1101101101010 1111111111 11110110 110111001 1111011 1111011001 1101010 11111111 111111011 11111111 11111100 1111011111 1111011111 1110011 011011110011 11111101 111111110111 1111111100 11111111 1110011 1011111011 111011000 1110100 11001 110110 111101 11111 110110 110101 11110 111101 100011 111001 1111 11111 111110 11111 1111010 1111 111101 1111 111101 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 838
- Average number of words per stanza: 167
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; det, hans, da, og, den are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word da is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, den are repeated).
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