This is an analysis of the poem Den Ottende Sön that begins with:
Den Hane slog ud sin Vinge og gol,
Ung Thora alt sad ved Væverstol....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aX XX XX XX bX Xa XX XX XX cc XX XX Xa XX dX eX eX XX XX dX Xc eX Xf XX Xe eX XX XX XX XX Xb XX XX gg fX eX XX hh XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11011110 11111101 11011001 11101100 0101110101 111110111 110110111 1100111100 11111111 1100111101 1101101101 11110100 10111101 01010111 11111100 011110 0110111 101111011 1011100 1101010110 1010111111 110101111 11101101011 1111100 10101010011 101010111 1111111 1010101100 111111111 11111011 111101101 1010111111 111101101 010111011 1111101100 110111001 1111101 11110101111 1111110101 1010101111 1101110 11110111 11111101 1110101111 1010101100 01010101 111111100 1011111 11111101 10111100 1101111011 10111101 11111111 11101011001 110101101 110110111 1100110100 111101101 111111 11111111 110101010 11111010101 111101101 1111110 110111011 101101001 11011011 11111100 101111011 111110111 110101101 1111101101 1101110100 01100111 11111111 1110101111 110110111 11111110 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 40
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; og, d, du, de, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, og are repeated.
The author used the same words syv, de, liden, sidder, hil, jeg 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 n, d, r, kind, e are repeated).
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