This is an analysis of the poem Holger Og Prinsesse Gloriant that begins with:
Blandt Hedninger laa jeg i Bast og Baand;
Jeg bandte de vantro Sjæle....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXb XXXX XbXX XXXa XXaX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111111 110101 111111011 11011111 1010111 110111 110111101 1111111 111111 111110 1111011 1111011 1111100100 111111 11011101 111101 110111001 1111111 110101111 11110 110111001 111011 110001111 111101 11011110 111111110 1111111 1111110 1111001011 111111111 110111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; jeg, hun, om, sang, med, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same word hun at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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