This is an analysis of the poem Sejersfesten I Zaragosa that begins with:

Zaragoza saa jeg prange
Med de røde Taarnes Pragt....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX aXaXX XXaaX XbXXb XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010111 101101 100010 110101 1000111 11100110 1000111 10111110 1101000 110111 11101110 1010001 11111110 10111010 111101 10100010 111001 11110 1011110 111101 111111 11110 1010110 01101010 110111 1011100 1011101 1001110 1111110 10111 10101110 101101 1111000 1111111100 1111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; de is repeated.

    The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Sejersfesten I Zaragosa;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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