This is an analysis of the poem King Volmer And Elsie that begins with:
After the Danish of Christian Winter
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXaa bXcX cXdd eeeE ffaa gghh iiee cchh cXbb bXdd cXee bbcc jjeX kkjj ggdX cXbX lXdX cclX eXeX kkhX jjhh ii fX jjcX eeeE ddbb mmhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001001010 1101011111001 001010101010100 010111010100010 110101011101010 1101010011101 11110100101100 1101011110101 11010101110001 1101110110101 1111010101111 1001110110111 11110101111001 011110100110101 001100001010111 01010100010101 01100101110101 001000101010111 11000101010101 110111110101010 110101011101010 0101011110011 11011101011101 01010101110101 01000101110101 01110101110111 11111101110001 1101010010111 11010010110101 10010101111111 11010101010111 11110101010111 11110101010101 1101110010101 1101010111111 11011011110101 11010100010011 11010101111101 100010010101010010 11110101110111 11010101110111 11110100010111 10101010110101 1101110110101 110101001011101 11011100110101 1101010001111 110111111001001 11111010011101 11111111110111 11011111010011 11010011010111 111111111101110 1101011101101 01011001110111 1001110010111 11010100101111 1101010110101 10110111111101 01111110010101 11110101111101 11110101110001 10010101111101 11110101111101 01011111011111 11001111010101 1101110111101 11111101110111 010101010111110 01110101111101 11011101110111 1111010101101 0101010011101 111011101011111 0101111110101 1100110111101 1111010101110010 1111010110111 10110101110101 1111110010101 11111100010011 11100101111111 01000101100111 1101010111111 11111111101101 11010111010101 11101110110101 11111101101010 1101111010101 1111110111101 1111110001111 1111111111101 1111010010101 11010101110011 11011101010101 01110101011101 01100101110101 11110100100101 11010011111101 1101010110001 010111000100001 11010110101011 01001010111111 1111110010101 1101110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 106
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, me, and, her, she, to, at, you, ', must, your, i, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the, and, she, he are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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