This is an analysis of the poem Patriotisk Elegie that begins with:
Der var en Tid mit Fødeland
Var rigt paa Ros og Hæder -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXabX XXXbX XXXXX cXXXX cXXdX XbXXX XXXbX XXXXX dXXXX cXXXX XXXXX XeXaX XXeXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 111111 10111111 111001 1 11011110 111111 11011101 110101 1 11011101 111110 011111 1101010 1 1110111 110111 11000110 1001110 1 10011101 110011 1110101 11011 1 111101 1100110 11110111 1101110 1 1101111 111000 1111101 1111110 1 11010111 110111 1101111 110101 1 11001111 11111 1101101 110111 1 1100011 11111 0110001 11101 1 01011101 11011 0111001 11100 1 0101111 110010 01110001 1101010 1 0111010 1101110 11110101 1101110 1 11111100 111110 11001100 110111 1 11101101 111110 111111 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; der, i, du are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, dig, vi are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sit connects the lines.
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