This is an analysis of the poem Rahab that begins with:
Der laa en Stad paa Marken,
Som kaldes Videslet,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXX aXXbXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX accXaXXX XcXcXXXX XbXXXdXd XXXXXXaX XXXXXXXX XXXXaXXX XXaXXXXb aXXaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 110100 1101110 100111 1111010 111010 1100110 110101 1111110 11111 110110 11111 11011 1111 1111 11111 111110 111100 111110 11111 111100 11101 111101 11111 111110 01010 0111110 1111 0111010 110010 1011110 111110 111101 111111 1111 11101 1101110 111101 1101110 11100 010110 110111 11111110 111111 1100110 11111 11001 11111 111111 111101 11001 111100 1111110 11111 11111 01000 11111 11011 11111 11101 011111 101101 101111 110111 1101010 01111 11111 11111 11011 1110 110111 11111 110110 1111 1111110 10110 1101010 01111 111110 11111 111110 110111 11111 01101 011011 110101 11011 011101 1111110 11111 1111010 11011 1111100 11101 110111 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 99
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- 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; hun, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, og, de, han are repeated.
The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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