This is an analysis of the poem Den Formløse Faun that begins with:

Den formløse Faun
vil besnære Kongens Datter,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XAX XXX XXX XAX XXX XXX XXX XaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 111010 111011 1111011 11101010 1110011 11111 10101110 111001 11111 111010 111011 1110111 11101010 111011 111001 10101110 11111 1111 111100 1110111 1101101 110111 111111 1111101 1100110 110001 1010111 10101110 1111111 11111 1111011 111111 1111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; se, og are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word se 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 faun is repeated).

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