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

I Rom gik atter Ry af fjerne Sejre
Til Glands for Kejserdømmets unge Sol,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXcXXXXXXX XXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXeXXbXfXgXhXdXXXXXXX heXXXXXi XhXXXXXXXijXaXXkXXXXXXXX dXXjbXXXiXdXXXbX XXXXXXXXXlXXfXXXiXXlXXXXmX XXhXXXXXXXXXXkXXXXXX XXXXXhXXXnXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXmlXXiXXXXXdXXXXXXXX aXXXXXhXXX XXXXfXXXXXXXcXXXXXXX XXlXdXXiXnXXXXXijXfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,37,8,24,16,26,20,15,33,10,20,21,15,41,10,27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101111 11110011 1101010011 110110100 1101101010 111101010 1101111 11111111010 1101010100 011101110 110101101 1101111100 110111010 11001101010 1110011110 100101111 11100001000 11101111 1111100100 110111111 111101011 1101110010 110110101 011111000 11110111 11101110100 11111011100 110101111 1101111100 111110110 01110101 1101101110 11011011 110101111 110101100000 0100101001 110101111 111100011001 11011000010 111111011 111011011100 1111010100110 1111010110 11111101 111101001 111111101 1111110011 1110011010 1001111110 011010110 111010110 111100110 110101111 1101011010 111110110 1111101010 111110000 111101111 1110010010 111100011 1100010101 110111100 1110101 110111110 110011001 1101110110 111011101 011010111 1111101110 1110000111 1011111101 11011111 110111110 1111100010 111101101 101000110 110111101 111101011 1110010010 1100110111 10010011010 1110100110 1111110010 1001110101 1100111 11111101110 1111110111 1111110101 11110110110 1110101110 11111111 1111011010 11111011 110101101 111010111 11111011 101000011 11011111 111110111 1100010100 11101111 11011110 111111000 1111111 1101101110 1111110110 1111110110 1000001111 110101101 1101111110 111111111 1101110011 11101111 10111101 10110100111 101110100 1111111111 1011111 11111111 11011011010 11010110000 101111100 1011111111 1110111111 11011100 111111111 1011011100 11001111 1111010100 111111001 1011101110 10110010110 11001101010 1100111110 11111100010 111111110 0101011111 11011011 111111001 011011101 110000111 11010111 11110011000 1111101 11101111100 010110110 111000010 111111110 100011111 11100110110 11111111 111111101110 11111111 111111011 110011010 11110110110 11110110 11110111 1101100001 110101110 11011101 111101110 11111101110 100101011 11011011 11011100 1111110 110111110 1111101000 11111001 111110101 1111110010 111110110 110101110 1011011111 11100111011 111110100 11110111 101110010 101010110 11111100 10011100110 11011111 1011110100 100111111 111110111110 11111110 1111111111 10001000111 11110111110 111111010 111011011 1101101000 111001101 11010101 110110110 11110101 101011101 11101100 110111101 11010011110 11110001 10010110000 110111110 110111110 0101111101 110111110 111110111 111011101 1101111 1100011111 10101011011 1111100100 11111101000 1001011100 111011011 111010 11110011000 1101011 110101100 1100011101 11111100 10010111 111101111 1010111000 100111001 11101110 1101110001 110101110 110111100 1111001110 11111110010 111111110 11101101 110110101 1111110 11101011 110111111 110001010 111000111 11110110 1111111 11101010 11011111 01011101110 11011110 11111101 0110001 101110111 110100110 11011000 1110010 110010101100 11101111 111010101 1110000110 11101001 100111001 1110110010 100110110 111111100 11000111100 1111010100 10111110 11111101 11110101 11110110 110111011 111100010 1101111100 1101110000 1011111100 1111001110 1100110110 1111111 011010101000 10000101010 1110001111100 110011101 1111111101 11110101 100111110 1001101001 11111110000 11111101 1111011101 011111110 11101111110 11111101010 1111111010 11010011001 1101001110 1101111101 11111111 110001111 1110011 1111110000 1101000011 110110111 101000 10110 1011010100 11111111 110110101 11111011 1100110110 1011111000 111010101 1111100110 1011 110110 101111000 111000111 110111011 1101111001 11111101 110111100 111111100 1111110010 1110010011 111100110 1111110 1101111101 1101101010 11111111 111011110 11110111100 101000111 1111111 1111010101 110111110 1110111110 1111011100 111100101 110100010 111011100 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 815
  • Average number of words per stanza: 151
  • Amount of lines: 337
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; til, er, en, dig, og, vil, de, der, paa, veed, for, sig are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

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  • summary of Athenodorus;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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