This is an analysis of the poem Sybariten that begins with:
Den Bi, som alene vil slikke Honning,
er ikke i Kridthus hos Biernes Dronning....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011110 0111011010 1111100110 11011011000 1100111111 1101101100 11111111100 111011111000 111110101 110111011 11010100 1111101 111010110 1111100110 1011111010 110001110 1111110 1100001000 110101111 1101101110 1100111000 110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 65
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; den is repeated.
The author used the same word 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 sen is repeated).
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- summary of Sybariten;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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