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

Det var just en Juleqveld,
Sneehvid som i gamle Dage,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXX XbXXcXXX XddXXaXe XffXXXgg hXXXdiXX XXXXXXXX fddXXaXj hXXhXXcX cXXcXXXX dXXXdXiX XXXhXXXX XXXXXXff eXXXeXXX XXXXdXXX XXXXbXXX XXXXjXXX XXXXXXXk XXXXXXXX XXXgdXcX XXXXbXXb XXXXXXaX XXXXXXcX XXXXXffg XXjdXXXX XXXXfXXf XXXXXXXX eXgXXhXX XXXXcXXd XkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100 101111 111101 111111 1100101 101110 101100 1110100 1011111 110101 101110 1011111 11110 111011 111011 1111 111010 111001 1010101 111100 11111 11111010 101110 111111 1111101 11111 101111 1111110 1100011 101111 1111101 1011001 1010111 1110110 1011010 1111100 1110111 111111 110111 101111 10110111 11110 111111110 1111111 1011101 1100110 111101 1101010 101101101 111001 111101 111011 101111 1010110 1001110 1111010 1010101 110001 1110001 1010111 1110101 11110 1111001 101011 1010111 1011110 111010 1110111 1111 1111001 1010111 110111 1110011 111101 1111111 111111 1011101 111010 1011111 1111111 11111 11111 10111 11111 111111 11111000 11101110 101111 111100 1010110 1111110 11101101 11011 1110111 111011 11111110 111010 11111 11101 11111 111111 11111 1011101 11110 111101 1011011 101111 111111 10111 11011 111111 1111100 1111101 101011 101101 111101 1110111 101110 1110110 10111100 11011010 110111 111111 11101000 1110011 1101100 111101100 1011101 11101 11101100 11110100 111111 111110 1100101 1111101 1010111 101101 1111110 1101101 1111100 101101 110010 1111000 111001 111101 10101110 1100010 1110011 1111101 11111110 11101010 111111 1011111 1110011 1101110 1111110 1011111 1111101 11001110 111011 1011111 101101 1111110 1110101 11111 11111100 111110 11101000 111110 1110001 111011 111100 110101 1100100 111111 111111 1110011 111110 11001100 101101 101101 1110001 1110111 101111 1111101 110011 11111 101111 1110011 11110010 11101110 110001 1110011 10100100 1111000 1110111 11111 111010 11100010 1100111 1011101 111011 111100 111101 10111000 101111000 11111100 11111 11110 11111 10001111 111011 1011101 101111 101110 11101100 111110 1011111 1110101 1111000 1010101 1111101 1111001 1110111 1110110 1110001 111001 111100 1001101 1011101 1110111 1000101 111111 101101 101111 11111 1111101 10101100 1111110 101110 101111 1011001 11111100 11111 101101 11111000 1010110 1111111 111111 1100001 101110 111110 1110111 101111 1100111 1010001 1110001 111001 1110111 1110111 11011111 101010 1010101 1111111110 1110111 10111 1111010 1111101 1111101 11111010 10101010 11001110 111111 1110101 1111110 1000100 1110101 1010101 1110101 110110 1111101 1011111 10111 101100 101101 1110011 111011 111110 111111 1111111 1011100 111100 1111101 1111100 111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 37
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 295
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; i, og, de, ham, til, med, leve are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words leve, og are repeated.

    The author used the same word og 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 de, ngsel, nger, mme, re, ie, kket, ren are repeated).

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