This is an analysis of the poem Havamál that begins with:

Ved alle Døre, før ind man gaar,
speide man skal,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXX XXXX XXXX bXcX XXXX XXbd bXXc bXXX XdeX XfgX XhXX XeXX XBXX XBXX eXXX bdcX XXXi ajfX XaXX bXXb XXXX XeXX XXXX BAXX BAjX XXbX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XaXk bXbX kXXX bXXa XkXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXhX XXXX XkbX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,5,5,5,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,7,1,5,5,5,6,5,5,5,5,1,5,6,6,5,6,6,8,6,8,6,5,5,7,8,6,6,6,8,8,10,6,5,6,1,5,5,5,5,6,5,5,4,2,1,5,3,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,6,7,6,5,5,5,1,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 111 111 11001111001 101101 101110100 11111 111111 11101 111011010 10111 1110101 1101110 1110111010 11110 10111111 11110 11101110 11111 11101101 1101110 11111111 101011 11111010 1010101 1101111010 11110 10111011 1100101 101111110 1011110 1101111 1011110 11111101111 111101 11101111 101111 101101000 1110001 101101101 11111 111101 110111 11011010 1011 10001110 1010111 1111111 1111101 1011011 1110110 11111111 111110 1011011 1110110 101111111 1111110 10110111 1111010 1111111 1111110 1011110010 1011011 1111011011 1111101 110111111 111111 101111 110111 110011101 11 11110101 101111 10110110 111101 1101111010 11011 111011110 111111 101110101 111110 1111001 1111010 1011111 11011 1101101 110111 101111001 111111 1011111 1111 1010111110 10101 101111010 11101010 1001011101 101111 101111010 11101010 10111111 1111110 10111101 111110 1011001110 1100111 11111111 111111 11011110 1011 101101101 1111111 1001111111 111111 11111101 11110110 010111101 11101 111101011 11001111 11110111011 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11011001101 1011010 101101 11011011 10011111 01110101 111101 1 11011001101 1011010 101101 11010101 1111101 1 11011001101 1011010 101101 10011111 11111 1 11011001101 1011010 101101 11101010 1101110 1 11011001101 1011010 101101 1011110101 11011 10011111 1101111 1 11011001101 1011010 101101 111111110 10101 1111110 111110 1 11011001101 1011010 101101 1111101 101111 1111111 11111 111 11111 1 11011001101 1011010 101101 1111111111 101010 1 1011111 11111 110110111 1011100 1 10111111 1111 11110 111111 111111 1110 1 1111111001 1011 10111110 11111 1 111111011 101011 10111110 111110 1 1101111 111010 1011111 11100 1 1111101101 1111 11111110 111111 1 101011101 1011 1011 110011010 1110110 1 101101101 11110 1011 11011 1 10111011 10111011 10111011 10111010 1 111011000 10111 1101100 110111001 11101011 11010 1 111110011 10111 11011111 111110 1 110111111 11111 1 11111111 1111110 11101001 11011011 1 11111101 11111 110111111 10111 1101 1 111111110 1101001 11111011011 1111111 1 111111011 11111 1111111 1101111 1 110111011 11011 1111111011 111101 1 110111011 11011 111011001 101101 1 1111111 111111 11011011 11011 1 1111111 110110 111010100 11100 11100 1 1101111110 11010 101001011101 1101 1101 1101 1 11111111 111110 111011010 111110 11111 1 110111110 11111 11101110110 1101111 1 1101111110 1011 101101011 101101 1 11111001 101101 1111101101 11100 111 1 10111110 11100 10011111 10101 1 101111 11111 10011101 10101 1 111101 1110010 111011110 1001010 1 111101 1110010 11011110 11001 1 11101101 11101 11101111 11111 1 11110010 1111110 1100101101 11111 1 1111110 1101110 10111100 111010 1 111110 11111 101111001 11000011 1 11001110 111110010 1111101 11101010 1 11101111 111110 1100111111 101110 1 11111111 1111111 11010111 110111 1 111111 1111 111111010 111110 1 10101101 10111 1111011 111110 1 111110 11110 10101101 110111 1 11111111 11111 101111010 111111 1 11011 101001 111101 10110 1 1011111 10101 011101 11011 1 1011111 10101 1010101 110101 1 1011111 10101 10011010 111101 1 0111010101 11011110 1111111010 111 1001 11110101 11011110 1 11111101 110100 100111 1000110 1 10111110 110110 110101111 110110 1 101100111001 11011 110111001 1101110 1 111111101 11101111010 010110111010 1110111110111 111111010 111101111 111111101 111011110110 110101101 11111101 1 10111 101101 10111 1011010 101101 1000101 1101101 1110101 111001 110101 11011111 11101 1000111101 1101110111 1 1010101111 1111011001 011111 101101111 1011111110 1 10101101 111111 110111111 1010100 1 111111110 100111 101111011 110101 1 10111110 10111 110111011 111001 1 1111011 1111 111111101 11101 1 111111110 111001 111111110 1101110 1 111111 111011 1111 11110 1 110111 11111 10110111010 1 11011001101 1011010 101101 1110101 11101 11111001 11111 1 1011111 11101 1011101 1111101 1 11011001101 1011010 101101 100111010 101111101 111111111101 1 11011001101 1011010 101101 110101011 11111 1 1101111111 111011 10111011 1001101 1 11011111100 1101 110100 111 11111110 111110 1 11011110110 11011 1011111 10101 10111111100 10110
  • Amount of stanzas: 181
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 853
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; man, med, han, gj, er, du, jeg, og, somme, ved, d, en, paa, om, l, ei, dem, hil, mig, af, ord, v, rk, for, veed, at, den, viis, hans, naar, hvad are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, somme, 1, for, tidt, meget, veed, , ud, karske, ei, i, eller are repeated.

    The author used the same words usnild, bo, aarle, f, 1 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 skal, stave, , n are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word bryst at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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