This is an analysis of the poem Vafthrudnesmál that begins with:
Odin kvad:
Raad mig nu Frigg,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,7,7,7,7,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 1111 11111 110011 11010 111 111101 11 110 1011 01101 101 111 110011 101 111 1110 111101 111 11100 11011 11 1110 1110 11111 111 10110 111 1110 111 11101 11011 1101 11111 101 11100 1111 11111 1111 1100 101101 1001 10101 1111 111011 101 01011 101111 101 10110 11111 1111 110 1110 101111 1001 11110 1101 11111 111 11010 1101110 101 11 11110 111101 110 1011 111110010 1001 1110 11101 1011 11110 11010 110111 101 10110 11011 110111 1011 11100 110101 1001 1110 11101 1011 11110 1110 1101010 101 10110 11010 1101010 110 11011 1010111 1001 1110 11101 1011 11110 1101 110110 101 10101 1101 110110 10110 1011 110011 1001 1110 11101 1011 11110 11111 110110 101 101010 11111 110110 101 10111 1110110 1001 11010 11111 1111010 101 11111 110110 101 1111 11110 1010011 1011 11110 1011 1001 1101 1101 111010 11101 10010 111101 101 11110 11110 1010011 1011 10111 10011 1001 100110 01010 10011 1010111 1111 101 1111 10111 1010011 10110 10111 11111 1001 10110 0110 1111011 111 11010 1111 101 1111 11101 11010011 10101 11110 111010 1001 10110 101010 1100010 110 11010 1000111 101 1111 11101 11010011 10110 10101 11101 1001 11 1101 1110010 100 11010 1110100 1111 10111 11010011 101001 111 11101 1001 11000 1001 110111 101 111 100011 101 11110 11011 11010011 1011 111 1001010 1001 10101 1110 11110 111 111 10001 101 11110 11011 11010011 11010 1101 1100011 1001 11 1111 1110010 11011 1111 1111 101 1111 11011 11010011 10101 10110 101111 1001 1110 1101 101111 111011 1010 1011 101 1111 1111 10011100 1011 11011 111110100 1001 11001 1110 11110110 11001 10110 11110 101 11110 1101 1101011 1111 11111 1001 1100 1101 11111 101 1101 101010 101 1111 1111 10011100 1110 1110 01101 1001 1110 1110 1111 11011 1010 101001 101 111 1110 111101 11001 1100 11001000 1001 11100 111 101 1101 11110 101 111 1110 111101 10101 11010 110111 1001 1010 101 11101 111 1101 10011 101 111 1110 111101 1101 1011 1101 1001 11 10101 1101 11110 10110 10011100 101 111 1110 111101 1101 1101 110011 1001 101 1111 110011 111 111 11001 101 111 1110 111101 1110 100 110111 1001 111 110 11101 111 111 1111 101 111 1110 111101 1110 11110 11111 1001 1011 1111 01111 111 11110 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 55
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 380
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, af, de, mangt are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mangt, held are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines der is repeated).
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