This is an analysis of the poem Hellig Vaar that begins with:

Paa Villavejene flagrer
en hvidklædt og hellig Vaar:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100010 111101 0111010 111101 1100111 1111100 11001100 110011 01011110 1111010 11011 111101 0101011 11001110 111110110 1101011 110110100 111111 11011111 10111110 11111110 111111 111101 1110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; og is repeated.

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

    The author used the same words de, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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