This is an analysis of the poem Vølvens Spaadom that begins with:
Hør mig alle hellige Slægter,
Heimdals Sønner store og smaa!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XabX XXcX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX dXeX XXXX XXfX XXXX XgXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXeX XXX XXXX XXXc XXXX XXXd XXXX fXXX XXhc XXXX hiXX XXbX XjXX XkXX XgXX XXXj XXaf iceX dXXX XeXX XXgX eXXe XXXX XXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,3,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 101111 100111111 11111 11011101 01101101 11111001 10111 11011010 111111110 11101110 10111111 1001111 011101 1111101 111110 10111000 1001010 100101010 101110 11010110 10111101 111111 11111 101111 1111101 1111101 1011010 1111111 111110 1111010 1011010 110110 10101010 1101011 10110101 10111011 101111 1000101 101011010 110110 10101010 1111110 1111110 11111111 10110111 1110110 1010101 1110101 1011101 11111101 11001111101 1111101 101111 10111111 1110111 111011 101011 11101010 11001111101 1011110 1011111 10111011 111110101 110011 1111110 111011 111110 11101101 10110 1110101 11101100 111111110 10101011 1110110 1101111101 111101 11111 1101010 1110111101 1 11011100 11111110 11111000 1111101 1110110 11101 1111110 111010111 10101110 1001010 11111 101111 10101001 11110111101 11101110 111101 111111 101111 1110110 1111010 1010110 0101111101 1111101 10101010 11011100 1111010 11101000 11011 11011010 111111 1011100 11111 10111011 10011100 111001 1111 110101111 10111010 1111011 111101 1011011 1011110 1100101 10101011 11111 101111 1011010110 101101 1111 11111101 1011100 11111 10111011 10011100 11011110 10110111 111011 101011001 11010111 101011110 1111001 01101011 11101011 10111001 10101010 1110101 10111101 110101111 1101111 110111 1011100 10111010 1110111 101101 1111010 111101 10111101 101101110 111011110 1101101 10111000 1111010 1011100 11111 10111011 10011100 1101101 11101110 10111010 1110110 10111000 10101010 11111 11001010 1010101 110111 1110101 11101 11101010 11111110 1001111101 110110 111111 11010111101 11111111 101101 1110101 111011 10101100 11101110 11101110 11111 1010110 111011 11111010 11101110 1011 110011 1111101 11011100 1111111 1111111 110110 111101 101111 10110111 110010 1101100 10101010 110110 1101111 1100110 111110 1111001 1111101 111111 11101010 111101 101011 1110110 11101010 1111111 10101110 11101 100101 110111 111100 1011111 110111010 1111110 1111110 1111100 110101 11110 1010101 1111100 1011110 101111 101011 110010 11111101 111011 1110101 111001 111111 111101101 11111011 1111101 1100110 111110100 101111 101011110 11011011 1011110 11111011 1011010 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 69
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 310
- 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; ei, de, i, han, og, l are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saae, are repeated.
The author used the same words saae, kommer 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 , aatte are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hvad 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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