This is an analysis of the poem Holger Paa Valfartsskibet that begins with:
I Mulm over Bølgernes Bjerge jeg foer;
Blandt Venner jeg stod paa min flyvende Drage....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaX XXXXX XXaXX XXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010111 1101111101 11111011001 111101101 111000001 1111101100 11100011001 1101100011 1100111001 11111101 11011011 110010110100 0111011111 010111111111 111011110 1111111111 1101111101 111101100 1111000011 11101101 111100101 1001110111 1101110101 110111101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, i, med are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n is repeated).
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