This is an analysis of the poem En Ganske Ny Vise Om En Kroermand Og Han Søn that begins with:

De Bønder de sidde saa tykt over Bord
Alt udi den Skjænkestue....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XbXX XbXX aXXX cXcX XXXX cXXX XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXdX XXeX eXeX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX dXcX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111101 11011 01110110 11011011 1101011000 1111010 10111111000 110110110 1101101101 110110110 1101111101 110111100 1011011 1111111 1101011011 11111110 1111010111 1111111011 111101101 10110110 1111011110 11111110 10010101100 111001000 11111111 11011111 110110011 0111110 1101111011 100011110 11111101101 1101100100 11010011011 1111011 01110101101 111101000 111000111 11000011 1111111101 111111 11111111 110011010 1101111001 110111100 11110110010 11111110 11111011010 0111111100 1111001011 1100111100 1111011 1111110 11010111110 1110110 110111111 111110010 11011001010 110111010 10011111 11110010 110111110 1100110 1110101111 1111000 1111011111 11001110 11011111101 11111010 111101111 110110110 111111100 1100101000 110111110 11111111 111111110 11011011 110001111 11111110 11111101 11111101 101011111 110110 1101111011 1111100100 111111001 11011010 1101001101 111111000 1110011101 100110110 1111111111 110111100 1111111011 1110011 1111110111 01011011 111111111 111011 1101101111 1111001 11111111 1111001 111101111 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; de, i, jeg, han, n, den are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words den, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of En Ganske Ny Vise Om En Kroermand Og Han Søn;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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