This is an analysis of the poem Holger I Offerlunden that begins with:
Jeg stod en Sommermorgen i Herthas grønne Lund
Ved den brusende Fjord....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXb XXaXb XXXXb XbXbb XXXXb XXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100011011 11101 11111110100 11101 1110110 110101001111 11111 10001111011 11101 11011111010 0100111101 111011 10011110011 1111010 1111110110 110011111 11101 111110011 10101 111110110 11111111111101 110111 110110001 11111 1110110 11111111111 110011 110110111101 110110 11110010110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, de, i, jeg are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word lunden at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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