This is an analysis of the poem Ynglingen Fra Megæra that begins with:

Til Corinthus fra Megæra iler
Flink en Yngling i sin Blomstertid,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXb XXXcXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXaaXc XXXdXXXX XXXdXXee XaXaaXXX XXXbXXff XXXXXXXX XbXXXXeX XXXXgXXX XXXgXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXbX XXXXXXXa XXXbXXXe feXXXaXd XXXeXaXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011010 111011100 1111101010 110110111 1110011 11111111 101100000 110111 11111110 111011111 11110101 11111101 1100111 11110001 1111000 101110 11101010 111100010 111111100 11110110 10111111 1101111 1111111 11111 111011011 11110011 1110100100 11110101 11111100 101100111 1111101010 1011000 1011001100 10111010 01111010 101110001 111010110 1111110 111010111 111101 11111011 11111100 10110101 1111101 11101100 111110100 11101101 110100 10100110 111111111 111111010 111010111 1001101100 11111010 111011111 101101 11010111 1110100 10101111 111110 101010110 11111110 1110101 11110 1111111 10111100 1101101 11101101 101111010 11110100 1010001 111001 111011100 11111110 11111001 101111110 1111111 1101111111 11111011 111011 1111111 10010011 11110111 1101001 1110111 11111110 111110001 1011000 111110110 11001101 111101100 11101011 111011001 110110 111100100 111101 11111100 11111110 101111010 1111101 1111001 1110111 111001100 101110 111101110 101101100 1110110 1111111 1111001 11110110 1011100 101110 111110001 10101100 11110101 1101000 110011100 111111110 110011101 1011111 110111101 11110100 110110110 11101111 100101011 11111110 10110110 11000 11111110 111100000 1010111 10111101 110100100 1111101100 11111111 111001 1101111 1101001 11111111 11110011 101111010 1111110010 11010101 1100101 11110110 11001001 1011101 1001101 101111100 101100110 111111 111010 1100100100 11101010 11111110 111011101 10111110 11111111010 11011001 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • 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; i, han, hans, s, er, d, og, mig, saa are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words o, men 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 mmer, nge, re, kker, d are repeated).

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