This is an analysis of the poem Faderkjerlighed that begins with:

Da Harald hiin haarfagre
Betvang den norske Jord,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX bcXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XabX XXXX XXXX baba bXbX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110 101101 101111 10011 011010 111101 1101010 11001 110101 110110 11001 11111 100111 110111 1101010 11011 10111 100111 111101 101101 11111 110101 11110 111100 1111 111111 111101 110101 100111 110100 11011 11111 111111 111101 1111 110111 1101110 11100 111111 11111 111110 11011 11101 110111 110110 110111 11001 1101001 110101 110101 11111 110100 111111 1111 111111 110111 110110 11011 11110 110100 110101 11100 110111 111101 111110 110111 110110 10111 11111010 1101111 1101110 110111 1111111 101111 110111 1101000 111010 11111 111110 110101 1111010 110111 1101110 1100011 11010 110011 110110 11011 111001 11011 11111 1111 111111 1110 1111000 11111 110111 11111 110101 11100
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, han, saa, den, t are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word saa at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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