Kæmpebegravelsen by Adam Oehlenschläger: poem analysis

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

Paa en af grønne Danmarks Øer,
Og fiernt fra Larm og Støi,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXXX cXXXXdXd XXXXXXXX eXXXfgfX hXXXXiXi XXXXXXeX XhXXcgXX eXXXXjXX XXXXjXXX iXXXXhkX XXiXXXXX XXbXXXgX XaiaXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXaXX XXXXdlXl XXXXjXXX XjXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXcX XXXXXXbX jXXXXhXX XXXXiXXX eXXXXXiX XXgXjXjk XXXjmXmh gXXXXXjX gXgXjaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100 111111 1101111 111100 1111011 11101 11110001 110001 11001101 1111 10110101 11010 111111 01101 1111011 1101010 1111100 11111 11111101 111100 111111 11111 11011100 110101 111010 10111 110110 11100 11111111 111110 11010011 1010111 10101001 110111 1101001 11111 11011101 110111 11011100 111001 11011101 111100 1111100 11010 1001101 111111 1111111 1110011 111111 11101 1101111 11100 1111101 01111 110111 110110 1111101 11100 110101 110010 1110111 110110 11110111 1101110 101111 11010 1011010 11101 111011 110101 11011100 011101 1110111 11111 11011110 11010 0111100 11111 1011001 1011 1101101 111101 11111101 11111 1111111 100101 0111110 101111 110110 111101 11000101 100111 11110101 111110 11001101 1101110 1111100 110110 110111 111110 1111101 11010 1111100 11111 1111111 11011 11111101 1110101 11011111 1111100 1111101 110110 111011 110111 11001100 110111 111111 1001010 1111011 1110010 0101111 101111 11110111 11111110 1101111 11111 111111 11101 1111111 11110 1111000 111110 111100 111110 11101100 11110 11001110 1111010 11110110 110110 1111101 11111 10100101 110100 11010111 11011 1111101 11010 1111101 10011 111111 1101100 11011001 11001 10011000 111100 1101011 11111 1101111 11011 1111100 010110 1110101 110111 11111101 01111 1011011 110111 1101111 111111 10100101 11111 11001111 11111101 1110110 100010 1101101 1111 111111 100111 111111011 100111 1110110 111100 1101101 111110 1111111 111110 1101110 10111 011101 11001 0101010 111100 110101 1101000 11011111 1101111 1101011 11011 11101111 111110 1101011 1110110 1111101 111110 1001111 11011 1001111 1101110 1111110 111111 1101010 111110 1111111 110111 11110111 10011 1101101 11011 111101 111010 1101111 1101110 10111101 1011 1100111 10111 1001101 110011 11001111 110111 1111011 1110100 1100011 1111000 0101111 1101110 1101111 1111010 11001111 110111 11101100 110001 11111111 111000 1101101 111110 1110101 11001 1101010 1111100 1100111 110001 111111 11111 1010100 111111 1100110 11010 11110101 101111 11110101 111111 1111110 11111 1111011 11101 11011001 11101 11011101 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 36
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 274
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, i, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, fra, han, til, da, og, snart, i are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Kæmpebegravelsen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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