This is an analysis of the poem Sangen Om Hárbard that begins with:

Thor kvad:
Hvo er den Svend blandt Svende, som hinsides Sundet stander?...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa XX XXbXX XXa Xa XXXX Xca XdeXXe XXXafX Xa XX XXX XXXX XcX XXggX XXXXX XX XhhXX dXXE XXiXgbX XXXXXg Xa XaXE XXXXXX XiXfX XXX XXXeXX XXX XXe XXdXdX XXXX XX XX XX XX XX XE XXX XX XXXXX XXX XX XXX XdX XXX XXX XX XXaXc XXX XXX XXX XX XXX XXa XX XX XXXXXd XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,3,2,4,3,6,6,2,2,3,4,3,5,5,2,5,4,7,6,2,4,6,5,3,6,3,3,6,4,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,5,3,2,3,3,3,3,2,5,3,3,3,2,3,3,2,2,6,2,3,3,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 10111111001010 1001 101111011101010 11 111010111100 1111111011 11111111 111110110 1001 111010101001010 101111111011110 11 11001111110110110 1001 10111111111 1001011010 111101 11 11111011111101 1110110111010 1001 1011011011 11011101 1111001011 11011110 11111101011 11 11111111101 111110101 101011010 101011101 1111110110 1001 111011110 11 11011111010 1001 11111011111110 11111101 11 1001111111010 111111110100 1111111010 1001 011110111 110101100110 11 110011111110 110111100111 111111111101 1101101 11 1111111 1011110 1011111 11101110 11 10111111010 11 1111011011 1111011011 1110101 1101101 1000111111 111011 11101110 11011101 11 111111 1001111 1111010 001001101 1110111 1101101 11 111111100 1110101 11110110 111110 111110 11 110110110 11 1111111010 1101111 11011101 11 111111 1111101 1011011100 11111010 1101101 11 1101111 1101110 101111 111101 11 1010010110 101111 11 11111001 11110011011 1100111 111110010 11101111011 11 0111111 1110101 11 1101010111101 1101111 11 111111 1101111 100101101 1011101 1101101 11 1111111 101110111 11101110 11 11101111 11 111111111111101 11 111111011111 11 1111101101101 11 10111101101011 11 11011101 11 1110111 110110100 11 101111001 11 101010110 1111111 11111 1101101 11 111111110 1101101 11 1100110111011 11 111111101 1010101111 11 110010011 1011110 11 10111111 111101 11 10010111 10101101 11 11111 11 111010110 1101110 111101 1011101 11 11110111101 11011111011 11 110111111 1010111010 11 11111100110 110101110111 11 011011111 11 1001110 111010 11 11111111110 11110111010 11 1011101111 11 11111110101111 11 1011110111 1101110110110 11110101001 1111111 1111011101 11 111010 11 111111 1111011 11 110111011110010 111110111101110 11 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 60
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 207
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; jeg, f, vi, de, du, h, er are repeated.

    The author used the same word thor 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 os is repeated).

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

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  • summary of Sangen Om Hárbard;
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  • history of its creation;
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