This is an analysis of the poem Havfruen Og Kongen that begins with:
Paa Skierene skiön Havfru sad,
Af Fiorden gaaer en Snække,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101 110111 1101111 110111 111111 11011101 11010111 11100 1101111 11111 1101111 11111100 11111101 110101 11110111 110111 1101111 11111 11010110 1110010 11111 11100 11111111 1101110 11111011 1111010 11010111 1101000 11111 10011101 11110111 110011 11010111 111101 101111 11010011 1111100 11001 11111101 11011 1111111 111101 11111101 110110 11001101 11011 1101011 11011101 11010111 110110 11001111 111101 1110101 1101101 1101011 111110 11111100 1110110 101110 11111100 1111001 1111000 1100101 1111110 111111111 11111100 11010110 1111 1111 1101110 110110 11010101 1101111 11101 11110111 1111 110111 1101111 1111101 0111 1111101 110111 1101101 101011 11011101 11011 011011 11101 11010111 11010110 1110111 1100100 11011100 11110 110011 1011110 11110101 1111 1101100 101001 1101111 11010111 11011001 10011 11001100 11011 1101110 111101 111111 111110 11111011 1111010 1101111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hans, hun, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, den are repeated.
The author used the same word ski 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 e is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words mig, blaae at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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