This is an analysis of the poem Rolands Forbøn that begins with:
Roland var Holger Danskes Ven.
Han naaede knap til min Skulder;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaX bXbX aXaX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 1111110 1001100 11011010 101111001 1101111 1001111 111001 11101001 0111 111011 1101101 1001111 1111110 1110111 111110 10111001 1101011 10011101 110110100 1011110 111111 11111101 1100111 101011001 111101 1111111 1111111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; han, mit are repeated.
The author used the same word roland at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Rolands Forbøn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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