This is an analysis of the poem Skærveslagerens Vise that begins with:
:,: Ved en Vej i nørre Len :,:
:,: stod en Vejmand og slog Sten. :,:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXaX bbXXX XXaaa XXAAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1110111 11001100 1111100 1110011 11111 111110 110101 111100 111100 10111001 1110101 1010110 11101101 11111101 111011 111110 111001 11010111 11010111 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, en, jeg, er, af are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, hun, thi are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rvesla'er, en, sten are repeated).
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