This is an analysis of the poem Holger Danske Og Burmand that begins with:

Her klang til Danmark en Kæmpesang
Om Burmand og Holger Danske....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXb XcXX XXXX dcdc XeXe XXXX XXXb XXXX aXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110110 1101101 11011011 111111 11100111 110101 11110100 110101 11011010 11110010 11111111011 111111100 111101 111111 1111111 11101 1101111 1111010 11011011 1101110 1111111100 1101001 11110100 1111001 111111001 1100001 11011111 11111110 1010110 1111001 11101111 1111001 11101111 1100101 11010111 111111 1111110 1101101 11110101100 1101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; jeg, hans, var are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, jeg, hans are repeated.

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  • summary of Holger Danske Og Burmand;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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