This is an analysis of the poem Den Sidste Paa Skandsen that begins with:
Paa volden hist saa kjæk og fast
Han blev, mens alle Andre...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa Xbbc XXXX XbXX cXXc
- 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: 11011111 111111 11011 11111001 1111111 1111110 111010 1111111 111101 1111110 111110 1100110 1111111 110110 111110 11011111 11101111 111110 1101 10011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; og, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word han is repeated.
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