Man Har Sagn Om Borgtapeter (Iv) by Emil Aarestrup: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Man Har Sagn Om Borgtapeter (Iv) that begins with:

Man har Sagn om Borgtapeter,
Hundredaarige, paa hvilke...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111000 100011 0100100 111111 1111110 111111 1111000 1001101 10110 101100 11101 1010100 1011110 1100111 1111000 1111 110010 1100011 1001000 1011101 11110 110011 11101010 111001 1111010 1011110 11101100 10111110 1011101 100100 010100 100100 10111110 1010101 11000010 1011101 1111001 101001 1111010 1100011 11111 11111 101001 1001001 11101110 1011010 11100010 101011 10101000 11111010 11001101 1110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.

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  • summary of Man Har Sagn Om Borgtapeter (Iv);
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  • history of its creation;
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