This is an analysis of the poem Ved Istedløvens Afsløring that begins with:
Hellig graven er, hvor stærke
heltes støv er lagt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXa XXXXXXXX bXbaXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 10101 1110101 10101 111011 111011 11111 1111 1010011 11101 101110 11101 10101 101101 101111 11101 1010111 10101 1111111 111 11110 1110110 11101010 11110 10111 10110 111011 10101 111111 110101 111111 10101 1111110 10100 0111110 10101 111011 101110 111111 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word hellig at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kke, den, lge, rke, ve are repeated).
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- summary of Ved Istedløvens Afsløring;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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