This is an analysis of the poem Kammerherre, Baron Hendrik Rosenørn-Lehn that begins with:

En Adelsmand, en riig og fornem Herre,
Der eied Skov og Mark og høie Borge;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXX XXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,28,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001111010 11111111 11111001 111011010 11101111 1001010110 11001001110 1000111101 11111001011 111111101 100011110 1101110100 111110111 101111111 1001110011 11101111 110111010 11011111 11110010 1111111111 110110100 110110111 1100111 110110111 110111110 101111110 110011110 110101001 11001100 11111111 11110111 11110110 110110111 111110111 1100010100 110111001 101111101 11110011110 11111011 1111110111 11111001 11111001 11100110 1111111101 1100000111 1100011101 1110111110 110111110 101111110 11011101000 11110111 111110111 111101101 11100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 711
  • Average number of words per stanza: 131
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; en, og, hans, vi, var are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hans, vi, og, for are repeated.

    The author used the same word og 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 farvel is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Kammerherre, Baron Hendrik Rosenørn-Lehn;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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