This is an analysis of the poem Hvor Er Nu De Gamle Stier that begins with:

Hvor er nu de gamle Stier,
Kirke-Stierne, som før...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabccXXdd XXXeeeXXXX XXaXXXffeX XXaXgXXXgg XXXXXXXafX XXXXXXbbXX aeXXXaXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXfXXXXXXh XfXXXXaXXe aXXXXXXXhX eXXXXXXXXX iXiXXcXXXX XhehXXffjj XdXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110 1111 1011110 1011110 1010111 111101 1010111 110101 101101 101101 101111 11110 1101101 111111 1010101 111111 110110 0111001 1010111 111100 101011 1011101 1010110 1011101 101111 1111111 101111 111111 11111 1110101 1010110 1011101 11101010 111101 1011101 1110100 101101 101011 1110100 1011101 111111101 1111111 110011 1110110 11111000 1011100 1111110 1111110 1110101 1010110 1111101 11111 11111 111101 11111100 10111000 1010111 1111101 101111 1110101 111110 1111111 110100 11111 111011 1011010 11110 11101 11011 111011 11011 1010101 1010101 111101 101111 11111 1111101 0110111 111111 111111 111011 101011 10111 111101 111101 1010101 101111 101101 11111 11111 1111110 1011101 1110110 11111 1110110 1011110 10111010 1100100 111111 111101 1100110 111111 10001000 11111 111101 1011101 1010101 11011 1111101 1010110 110111 110101 111100 101100 111101 101111 11111 110110 111101 100010 1010001 1011101 1110111 1010001 101011 1011101 1110111 101011 11011 111011 111001 10110101 11111 101101 1010001 1111110 111110 1111110 101111 11111 1101100 11011 10111 1011101 111110 1011010 1110110 1111001 1110101 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 159
  • 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; og, de, med are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word hvor 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, der, rk, nder, d are repeated).

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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