Holgers Bortreise by Bernhard Severin Ingemann: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Holgers Bortreise that begins with:

Min Sjæl sig tumled fornøiet:
Jeg var i mit Fædreland....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XaaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX babX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 11111110 1011011 0111 10011110 11010 101111 11101 1100110 110111 11101 111011 110111 110001 11111 111110 011111 111101 101110 1101110 10110110 1100011 1111110 0111110 111100 1110111 100111 1100101 11010110 111101 1011110 1101110 1111101 110111 11011 1101111 11010110 1111001 1001110 1011010 1101010 1101111 10110 1101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jeg is repeated.

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

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