This is an analysis of the poem Vølunds Ed (1) that begins with:
Aserne lo,
og Latteren sprang...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbXXXX AX XX dXXXeXXedefec XXXXXX XXXXeXXfX aXa XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,2,13,6,9,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 11001 10101111 11011011001 110110 110110 11111101 111 101 111101 0110 0110 111 10100110 1111 110100010 11001010 110101101 101111 1101110 1111 101111010 1111 1101011010 1110101001 11101110 11110110 1101010 1101010 11010110 1101111001010 111010 11011110 110000101 10011010 110110110110 11110110110 1111001101 110010101 111 01111 101111011 1101 0110 0110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, de are repeated.
The author used the same words aserne, og, de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word d at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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