This is an analysis of the poem Visen Om Himperigimpe that begins with:

Der var en Prins. Og der var en Gang
en Vise om Himperigimpe,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXaa XXXbXXXXX XXcXXXXXXXX dXdXX XXXe XXXX Xaa XbXXX XXX XXXXX XXXccf aaXXXXXX XgXbXgXX XXX XXgXXhh XXffXgXeX XgfXfX XXX XXXXXXXgXXXX XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,11,5,4,4,3,5,3,5,6,8,8,3,7,9,6,3,12,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111111 1111000 111011101 1101000 1101101 11001001 01010110 11111110 110011 111111 110010000 1111110 111110 111101 1101 11010110 1111101 1011011 11111 11111100 111111101 1111011101 011011010 1101011111 111 111000 1111111011 111111001 111111111 11111110 1111100 1111001 11001011 111101 111111 1101101 11011100 11001111 10110010 11110100 1011111 1101101 1101101 1101101 11011011 011011 01100000 11011011 111110 111100000 1111111 110010100 11111000 110000101 11111100 110111000 1111101 11101110 1101101 111111 111110110 111111111 111110111 11011101 110100000 11111111 11111011110 1111110 11110000 1101110011 01010111 110111101 1100101001 1111100110 11011011011 1101111011 11110011011 111111 1011 110100000 1111111101 111101011 111111101 111111 1111011 11011101001100 1100 11110011011 1111101111 11111110 1111110 1111101110 110111111 1111100100 11110111 1110001111 11111011001 1101111001 11111100 111101 11001110 10110010 1110011 1011101 110100000 101111 1011000 110111 1101011 111110 1101101 1110110 0111001 1111111 111100101 111110 10111 1101111 111110 11100110 1011011 110111 110111 11010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 127
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; en, re, ham, hun, rte, er, d, du, og, han, til are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, jeg, du, en, og, han, hurra, det are repeated.

    The author used the same word og 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 re is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word himperigimpe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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