This is an analysis of the poem Josvas Syn that begins with:

Josva gik i Palmelunden
I det klare Maaneskin,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXa XaXXXXX baXXbXX XXXXXXX XXbXbba XXXaXXX XXXXaXX XXXaccX XaXXXXX XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111000 111100 10111000 11111 111010 111100 11101 100110 1011101 101100 110001 1100100 110010 1000100 1001110 100111 01101110 111101 11111 1110110 11110 1110110 0111111 11100110 1010111 1101110 11101110 101101 1111111 1110001 111111 111111 111111 111011 1011010 1111101 101111 1011100 1011001 11111110 10111100 1111100 1110111 11110 1111111 11110 111110 01011101 1111001 1111110 1111 1011101 101111 1111111 1111111 111111 11111110 1001100 101110 1111101 111111 01100110 111010 1111110 1110101 11101110 1111101 1111101 111111 111111 110011 1010011 1110100 111111 1011110 1011010 1001100 11111000 111011 11111000 111100 1111101 100111 1111111 111100 111100 1110001 1011101 101101 110101 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 95
  • 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; i, som are 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 de, re, rke are repeated).

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