This is an analysis of the poem Kong Agger I Edessa that begins with:
Der sad en Drot ved Eufrats Rand
I Jesu Christi Dage,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXX bXXXaXX XXaXXXX XXXXXXb XXXXXaX XXXXXXX aXXXXXX XXXXXXb XXaaXXX XXXXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 110101 111111 111101 111010 111101 100110 11011001 11111 1111001 111101 111111 11111111 111100 1101101 111110 110111 110011 11010011 11011101 1111100 1101101 11110 1100110 110101 11011101 111111 110111 101110 110110 10110101 1111 11011111 111111 111111 1011101111 101111 1010101 11110 11110110 11011101 110110 1110111 100101 10001101 1101 1010111 111111 110101 1110111 101101 1110111 01100 11100111 01111101 11011 111111 11110 11011111 111101 11011001 11010111 1000110 1011011 1111 1101111 110111 1111111 0111101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 75
- 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, d are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word han is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n, d are repeated).
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