This is an analysis of the poem Ansgars Død that begins with:
Ansgar han laae paa Sotteseng
Udtæret under Smerter,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX aXXabXX cXXXabX XXXXcXX XaaXXXX dXdXXXX XXXXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111100 101010 11110100 11110 01110111 11010101 111100 1100111 11111 11001100 111001 11110101 0111111 1101110 111011 110111 111111 110111 1111101 11110001 111101 1111011 11111 11111 100111 111111 11111000 111100 1100011 11011 11010111 110110 110111 11111111 11111 1111110 111111 1111111 111111 1011111 101101 111111 11001111 111111 11110100 11110 11100011 11011101 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; han is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word med is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n is repeated).
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