This is an analysis of the poem Før Noah Tid Var Adams Børn Kun Tosser that begins with:
Før Noah Tid var Adams Børn kun Tosser,
de nøde kun det halve Liv;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XXXXXX XXXXbX XXXbXX XXXXaX XbXbXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101110 011111 110011000 11111100 011111 1101111 11011111 11111001 111010111 11011101 10111111 1101111 111110111 111111 1101101111 11111101 10101111 1101111 111101111 11110111 1110111011 01111111 11111101 1111111 111111101 11111110 11111101 11110111 11111111 111111 11011111 1101100 1111011100 110101100 11111101 1101111 110111111 11110110 11111110 11011101 1111111 0101111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, han, n, en, vi are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vi is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n is repeated).
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