This is an analysis of the poem Triumfdagen that begins with:

Carolus bar Verdenskronen;
Han holdt Triumf i Paris....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXc XXbX XXXX XXXc XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011000 111110 1101110 110111 1100001 111111 111001 1111001 111001 1100101 111111 110101 1111110 110111 11000110 1101111 11110 1100011 111001 1111011 1000011 11111 1110011 11111 11111 10110 1111010 1111001 11111110 1111101 11110110 111001 111111 111111 1111001 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; han, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jeg is repeated.

    The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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