Galathea Streng Og Vild by Anders Christensen Bording: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Galathea Streng Og Vild that begins with:

Galathea streng og vild,
Saa kand mand dig grysse,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXabbXX XXXXXXXX XXXXcXdd XcXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111 11111 00110111 11111 00110111 1111111 10111 11101 100111 111010 111111 111111 101110 10111 11110 111010 1010101 111010 1011101 101010 111001 1011111 11010 11101 111101 1101 1010011 10001 1110011 111111 1011 10111 100110 11101 111110 11110 1011101 111111 11110 11110 10110 11111 1111101 10111 111101 11111 11101 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; d is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, n are repeated).

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