This is an analysis of the poem Den Nye Öe that begins with:

Dybt under Havet,
Med Vælde begavet,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX X XXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXaXa XXXXX XbXb XX X XXXXXX XXXX XcXXXXc a XXXX XdXXXaX X XXXXXaXX dXXXaXXX X XXXXX X XeXXXeXX XXXfXfXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,6,8,5,5,4,2,1,6,4,7,1,4,7,1,8,8,1,5,1,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010 11100 0101 1101 1111 1110 11100 11010 11 1101 11011 11010 100 110010 111100 10100 10100 10101 1101 1101 1101 11011 11010 11010 110010 11000 101 1110 111 10110 1101 1010 1100010 10010 100100 1110 11101 11000 1111 110100 1101 1010 10101 10 110 10001 111011 11111111 111111 111 11100111 1110111 1101110011 1101111 0101 111 01011 1101 11011 111101100 111001111 01000 1001101 111001 111111 11001 111101100 11010101 10010111 1111111000 111 10110100010 111101100 10 11010 110110 10111 1101 10101 1110 1110 110110010 101111 111111100 11101111 11111111 11110 1101111100 1101110111 11000111 10 10111 111 11010 1101 01010 100000 11111110 1111010101 11101101 110010100 01111101 111111001 1110101 110101111 111101001 11110111 1000110011 100110111 1101110101 110110101 110101110 11111101 11110101010 1101011111 1101010010 1111111 110011011 1101101 11001101 110111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 121
  • 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; og, den, jeg, af are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

    The author used the same words de, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, lger, e, kke, ger are repeated).

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