This is an analysis of the poem Holgers Bortsendelse that begins with:
Kong Gøttrik sad ene paa Leire Borg,
Og mørk var Dankongens Sind....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XXXX XcXc XbXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 1111001 111111111 11011011 110111111 111101 1011111 111111 1001111001 111111 11111001 1111101 11111001 111101 110101011 11111110 11010011 1101011 111101000 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; d, han, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ret, og are repeated.
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- summary of Holgers Bortsendelse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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More information about poems by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
- Analysis of Holgers Drøm I Fængslet
- Analysis of Holgers Orlov Og Hjemkomst
- Analysis of Holgers Sang Om Hans Moder
