This is an analysis of the poem Hvo Har Ret? that begins with:

Til Dagen Orden i hver Zone
Jo hører Kiv og blodig Leeg:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbc XdXd Xdbd XXXX XXXX dcXc XeXe XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11010111 1111101 1111101 01111 101110000 1110111 111001000 110111 1111101 0101111 111001010 010111 1111111100 111111 1110111 11011 11111110 1011111 1101010010 11111 11010110 111100 111100010 111101 11010101 11110101 11110111 1111 11111010 11011111 111011010 110100 11101100 111111 110011010 11111 11011000 11110100 110111110 110101 11100101 1111101 11110001 110111 11110111 1110111 11000110 11101 11111111 11010111110 110111 111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; med, man are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word den is repeated.

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

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