Ansgar Og Ødbert by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ansgar Og Ødbert that begins with:

Hos Fyrsterne sad tæt i Ring
De Bisper rundt om Borde,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbc XXXXcdX XeXXbXX XXXXcXX XXfXXXX XgcghhX XXXefXX XXXXXXX XXdXXXX fXfXXXX XXXXXcX XXXXXXX XXcXdXX XiXicXX XiXXXXh XXXXddX XXXXdXX XXcfXXX XXdXffX XXXXbbg XXXXXXX XXXXdXX XXXXdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 010111 11011101 111111 11011111 111111 1100110 100111 11111 11001011 110010 111111 10111111 1111 1111101 111111 1111100 11111 11010011 1110111 11101 1111111 110111 01010101 111111 11111111 1101111 1101010 01011111 1101110 11011111 111110 1111100 11010100 11111 1111101 11111 1111101 111011 11111110 11111100 111111 11011110 11011 110111 110111 11111101 1101111 1101110 1111010 111101 1101111 11111 11001101 01111101 111111 11111111 11101 1110101 111001 11011101 1101111 110110 11111101 110111 1111010 110101 11111101 11111100 110111 111111 111101 1101011 11101 111111 1111111 1011110 11111111 001111 111110 110111 10110101 111110 1111000 1110111 111111 110111 11111 11010111 11010100 1101000 11111100 110110 111111 111110 1111111 1111101 111110 11011100 1101010 11011111 1111 1101111 1111010 111111 11101111 110011 11001111 110001 11011111 11011111 11111 11001111 11111 1101101 01111 1111011 11011111 111111 11011100 111110 11001101 110111 111111111 110101 11100 1111111 111001 111111111 101111 1111110 11000101 110111 11011100 100111 111011 01011 1101011 11111111 1110010 1111100 111111 1101011 111111 1111110 11110101 110101 11011101 11101 01111101 011100 0101111 1101100 1101110 1111100 111100 1111100 1111 11011101 1101100 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 179
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; er, og, til, saa, for, om, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, om, han, de, saa are repeated.

    The author used the same words det, saa at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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