This is an analysis of the poem Maaltider I Siena that begins with:
Fem Porte som fem svære Jærnlaase
aflukker det herskabelige Siena fra det kvægrige Toscana....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXX XXX bXXXX XcXXcXXXXXX XcX XbXXXbXX XbXXXXaXXX XXXXXXXXdXdX XXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,3,5,11,3,8,10,12,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1001100010111100 111101111000 11111010010 101111010 1110010110010 1111011101 1111000011100 100100 11100101 100111100 110111110110 11001101010 1101101101101101111 1100111011 1111111010 11111001001111011 11010100100010110 1101000111 11100001010100 10111100111110010110 111110010110010 111110001000 1101010101110 1111101111010010 1111100100000000 10011110111 110010011110110 1111100 1010110 1000101010 111010 1000 110100 1011010011 101001111 11111100110 1110010 11111110011 1101111 10110100 110110011 11011 1110011 01111011 110110010 1111111 11111111111101 0111110 1100110111 111110 1111011 1011 101011 1110110 1010101 10111100 111 0111110 1111111111 11001101 11111111111 111110 11101001111 111001011100 10011100 1111111111 110110101100 11111000 11011011110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; hvor, og, hende, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, at are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word nke at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase henaandet connects the lines.
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