This is an analysis of the poem Skjaldens Embede that begins with:
Du, som kun agter nyttig Daad i Livet,
Viid! til Unytte er ej Glæden givet;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXXaXXbbXXXXXXXXXXXXccXXaX XXXXXXXXddbbXXeX XXXffXXXeXXXXXXX fXXXXXffXXXXggXb XeXXXXXeXXXXXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,16,16,16,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101110 111001110 0101110100 111111110 1111100 011101101 1111011010 110111110 1000101101 11001011011 101111111 1101111010 11101111 111001111 1111111001 1111011011 1100110010 1111101 1001111111 1100100111 100111011 11011011 110011111 110101101 101101111 11101111 11101111 11100111 10111011 11110011001 10110011 11101111 110011010 1001111110 111011101 111001111 1101110001 110001111 110001111 11001111 1011011101 1101011101 11101111 110101101 110011101 1111111 111001011 110000111 1110011101 1100011111 110111110 1111101110 11100011010 1001110010 11011101 1111111101 110101101 1101100100 110110101 111011101 101101111 1101111101 110110010 111110001 1101111010 1111011 1011111110 1101111010 1101111010 10010100010 110101110 1101110 110111101 1111011001 110101111 1101011101 111011101 10110001 111001010 11110011 110111111 11011111 110110111 111111 11011110 11011001 111101101 1111101010 110101111 1001110111 11011101 1101000111 110101011 110110100 111101001 110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 739
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; din, ej, og, som, han, naar, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, han, naar, i, nu are repeated.
The author used the same word naar 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, de, mpe, ver, nder are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word sang at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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