This is an analysis of the poem Harpespilleren I Kong Erik Eiegods Leir that begins with:
Kong Erik Eiegod med sine Mænd
I Purpurteltet sad og rundtom saae...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXbXXXXXXXXXcbXXXde XXXXXX XXXXXb fXXXbg ccXXXX XXXXXX XXXhXX eXXXhXXedXXdXXXXXXXfXfXXXXXXXeefXXXXXffXXXXXXXXcXXXXaXaXXXbXiibbXXXfXXXXXXXXXXXX XgXX XXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,6,6,6,6,6,6,80,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 1100011101 11111001 11010111 11111011 110110111 110111001 11111000 11101010 11011011 11111000 110111111 1100011101 110011110 1101111100 1111101 111101 11111011 111110101 1101111001 11110101 111010111 11011011 1011101 111110 101101 101101 101011 101101 1011101 111110 101011 11111 1010001 101111 1010111 1111111 110101 1010110 1000111 1010110 1110111 10111 11111 101111 11101 101111 101111 111110 1010111 101111 111111 1010111 11100 11101 1100111 11111 11111111 0110001 111 11010 1111010 111 111 10111010 1110100 1110001 110001111 011001 1111010 11011 1111110111 1101110100 1101010 1010011 111011 1001101 110101010 110111001 1100110111 1111110111 111010 1101010 111100110 11111101 0110111 11010110 1000010111 110001111 11111111 111011 1110010 11011100 11110101 1100111100 1100010100 11000101 1111101 110 0111 1101 111001 11011 1101 1101 0111 100101 1100 11010 1101 101 11 0101 1101 101 1001 11011 110111001 11101111 111 01011 1101 1101 1110 11001010 1101 1101 11111 11001 11011 1001 111 11110 11110 1100 1101 111 1101 11010 1111110100 111011010 1011101 1011101 11010100 110111 11011010 11100110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 147
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; med, og, str, de, lys, ve are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, i are repeated.
The author used the same words salig, saa 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, der are repeated).
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