This is an analysis of the poem Anglerne that begins with:
Der ligger en Ø i Vesterhav,
Dens Rygte det gaaer saa vide,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXaX XXXX XXXX aXbX XXXa cXcX deXe XXXX dXXX XXXX XeXe XXaX XXXX XXXb eXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 111111 110111101 111101 100110 11011000 1111101 01110110 110101100 1101101 110111101 1011111 1111010 1100111 111111111 1101111 010011111 11110 11010111 11101 1111101 01111 11111100 111101 11111100 110011 10111111 100110 11001111 110110110 1011010 11001110 11011111 1101111 11011111 110111 11011101 111110 110101111 11001110 11111100 1101111 110011100 1101100 11101100 11011110 100111111 1111110 11011100 11101010 11011001 11101000 110011101 1100111 110011101 111111 11111001 1100100 110110110 1111101 11111111 01011000 1111001 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 76
- 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; til is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, og are repeated.
The author used the same word han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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