This is an analysis of the poem Hafbur And Signy that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXaBC Xded bfEF ghfh bcic Xfbf jbib ijbj bfEF bcgc kccc lgmg hnfn ofif Xjij ibib cdBd BpCc Xfmf beCe XXXc fbqb mcBX Bbbb mdbX XomX ffXf dqcq ccbc bdfd gjXj lhgh fblb Xcdc XXXd Xfdf obfb jdXX Xfdf dggg flol lchc Xcfc fdXd Xnbn bjfj Xror oqcq iidj mnfn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0100010 110110 111111 10101010 111101 111111 11101110 0101110 110101 110100101 011101 1111010 011101 111110111 1110101 11110111 0011111 100101010 100101 11110010 111101 0011010 1111001 10111010 1010011 11010010 01101101 11010111 010111 11110110 1110011 1111010 111111 111101010 111011 1111010 1011101 111110111 1110101 0111011010 111111 101010101 11101101 1001011 010111 011010101 10011101 11010111 1010101 111001101 1011101 11010111 0111101 111101001 1101001 11010101 110101 11100110 10111001 11111110 111111 11001001110 011001 11011110 0100101 001101110 010101 11011101 1110101 11010111 1111111 11010111 1111100 101111101 1111111 11011100 111111 11101100101 110101 1101110 0110111 101111101 1110111 1111010 111100 11001110 010111 11011101 11110111 101101101 1010111 0110101 0011110 1011110 1111100 1011110 110101 10111010 110101 01010101 010111 10111110 011110 1100111011 10100001 110111011 100110 11110101 111111 11110010 1110101 101110011 111111 10111111 1110111 11111111 111101 101111110 111101 10110011 010111 110111101 11100111 1101011101 10101001 110100100 1111111 11111010 1101111 1111110 10101101 11100101 1010111 11110111 00101001 100101110 1100111 1111001001 1111100 1101110 10110110 1100110 100111 1101010 101101 11000111 0111001 010100111 111001 11011011 110101 11010101 110111 11101100 010110 1101010 100111 10111101 011101 11011101 0011101 11110111 1110101 010001101 1101001 111111001 010101 111110111 011101 011111001 1111111 1011010 110111 10110001 111111 11010101 1111011 1101110 10111101 1101110 1111101 110100111 11100111 10010011 1111101 110111010 0111111 01101110 111111 1101101101 01101011 11101101 011111 101011111 01101101 10111010 110110 1011101101 11111101 11011101 110111 11010101 110101 11000101 01011101 1110100110 011101 1111110 1011101 0101110 10111001 110011111 111101 1010100110 100111 11111101 111011 111010101 00110111 110001111 111111 11010111 110101 1101110 10101111 11110101 10101010 1111101 111101 1100111001 100101101 111001101 110111 1111110 111111 1101010 1110111 1011110 1101101 111001110 101111 1111011 1011111 111101110 1110111 110110010 11101011 1110101 1110101 11110101 1111111 11110101 10101 11110010 0100011 11110101 110100 11110010 1100111 1101010 101110101 11001010 11011110 1101110 010101 110011111 10101001 11101110 11011011 110110011 01011101 1100101001 0011011 1011111 110101 111011100 011010101 1010100101 1010111 110100110 100101 0111100101 00111100 1101110 0101101 111111101 1111101 11001010 111111 1011110 101111 1101110 11000101 11111111 10110111 111100111 110101 11010101 1011111 11111101 111110111 01111101 11010101 10011101 110100101 11011101 11001101 10010011 11011101 1111001001 11110101 1110110 110101 011111101 11100101 110100011 110111 0011101 0110001 110110011 0101101 0011001 010111 1101001001 1011100 10011011 110101 0101110 1010101 110110101 1011111 11111101 10110101 111100111 1001111 1101100101 010110 111101011 11010101 1110101 11011 1101001001 010101 10001110 010110 11111101 110101 11111101 111110 11111101 1111101 1101101010 1010111 101100101 1101001 111101010 1010101 111100101 101111 11101110 110101 11100101 110001 111111 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 91
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 366
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; his, and, thou, to, they, as, she, my, of, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in, why, then are repeated.
The author used the same words lord, hail, then, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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