This is an analysis of the poem Knud Henneberg that begins with:
„Hvem har vi her? — Knud Henneberg! — Hvo kjender
„Knud Henneberg? — Hvor er hans Epitaph?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XabX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX cXcX XXbd dXXX babX bXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101100110 1100101101 1111001111 111111100010 11111101000 110111110 1111011100 110011111010 1111011110 111101010 1111001010 1101011101 111101101110 1111111111 11101100 111110101 11011110000 1100010101 11111110010 111110101 11110101110 11101101 11011001010 11111101 110110111 111111001 1100010101 11101101 1001111 11111111 1110111111 1111110 1111001101 111111010 11111111 1111111100 1111111100 11111111 11011110 10111100 110101101 11011110 110100111 1101010001 11011001 1101011100 11101011 111111111 11111101110 1110110 11000111110 0111111111 1111011101 110101111 11011110 110111101 111011110 1111111 010100110 1101111100 10111010 11101011 1101111110 110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nej, en, hvi, og, sin, med are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nej, en, hvi, hvad are repeated.
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