This is an analysis of the poem Til Hr. Hiersing Og Jfr. Malling that begins with:
Ord eller Lyd — som Babels Virvelvinde
Forfølge, tumle, splitte ad til nu;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXa bXXXcX XdXXXe XXXbcX XXdeXX XXXXXX eXbbdX bXXXXX XXXXXX cXXXXX XXXXXX XXcXXX XXXXXX XXXeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110100 111111 111111010 10111110110 1000111100 101111100 11000111010 110001110 100111111 110101111 1111110101 11111100 111111 11000101110 1101110111 111111011 1111111101 1001111001 110111101 110101111 1000111110 10011101110 1111010011 11111100 11111111110 1111111 1111010110 111011101 1111000110 110011111 110111101 1101111100 1110010111 110011111 1100011110 1101100111 100110111 110101101 111101110 10011001010 11111110 111011100 1010001110 1111110101 111110111 110111011 1111110100 1110011100 1111110 11110111 11111101110 11101101110 11111100100 1110001101 1111011111 1101110111 111101111 1101111101 1100110110 111101111 1101010111 11011111 1110111100 111101000 1101100001 1101100111 110111101 1110101 1110111 1110100110 100111011 11101100 1110110111 101111011 1111110000 1111011100 11011101 1110111111 110010110 1111111000 111011111 11100111 110111011 011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hos, og, for, den, hvad, du, i, han, et, der are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvor, hos, den, f, og are repeated.
The author used the same words alt, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ye, nde, re are repeated).
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