This is an analysis of the poem Og I Den Samme Konfuse that begins with:

Og i den samme konfuse
og babyloniske Festnat...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa XbX XXX XXX XXX bXX XXX XXX XXc XXX XXX XXX Xdb baX XXX XXX cXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XdX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX Xbb XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 1100010 101101 1111111 1111111 111111 1111010 1100010 11110100 111111 11111111 111110 11111111 11001101 111111 111100011 11011110 1111110 1000100 1101110 11011110 1001111 11001110 11000100 100101 1111101 1101101 110111 111111 11011100 1101110 11111010 11111110 11111010 110111 101111 111110 1111011 1111111 11111111 111101 11011010 1101011 11011011 1101111 1101111 1100110 1111001 011110 111110 111110 1111 11010001 1101101 11101 1111001 1101110 1100110 101101000 110111000 10110010 1100110 11011 110110 110101 111011 11011 110111111 11111 1111110 111111 111010100 1101110 111101 111111 11111110 111111 11100 111111 10011001 111101 0111010 1101111 1101110 11011110 101100 11111 1111111 110111 110111100 110110111 11010 111100 1111110 110101 11011 11011110 101100 111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 99
  • 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; det, hun, jeg, og, du, den, l are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, hun, at, den, det are repeated.

    The author used the same words hun, jeg, den 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 ver, jer, bel are repeated).

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