This is an analysis of the poem Jakob Og Esau that begins with:

Esau var en Skytte vild,
Og Jakob en stille Hyrde,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX aXXX aXXX XXXX bXXX bXbX acaX XXac XXXX dede XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXbX bXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 110111 10111101 1100101 10111111 1101110 10110111 1101110 1010111 1111 11101101 10110 10111101 1101110 1001110 11011100 101101 110111 1101101 1111111 1011111 1101111 1111111 110111 111101 111111 1111011111 1111110 1011101 1101110 11110101 010101 1111001 11111 1011111 1101111 1111011 11011110 111111 11011110 10111111 11011100 1011111 1111110 10011101 1101111 101101 111101 1011111 11011100 1011111 11011000 1111101 111111 11111101 111111 111111 111101 11111101 100111 1011111 01011010 10010101 11010100 1001101 1101111 1110101 1100111 111111 111101 1111101 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • 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; han, og, du are repeated.

    The author used the same word esau at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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