This is an analysis of Skærveslagerens Vise by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen.

:,: Ved en Vej i nørre Len :,:
:,: stod en Vejmand og slog Sten. :,:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXaX bbXXX XXaaa XXAAa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 111111 1110111 11001100 1111100 1110011 11111 111110 110101 111100 111100 10111001 1110101 1010110 11101101 11111101 111011 111110 111001 11010111 11010111 101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

i, en, jeg, er, af

Anaphora

han, hun, thi

Epiphora

rvesla'er, en, sten