This is an analysis of the poem Som I En Hellig Dødskamp that begins with:
Som i en hellig Dødskamp
Mit unge Hjerte banker -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1111110 101101 011000 11101 10110 1110010 11110 110111 0100110 10111 11010 1101100 011100 110110 111110 1101110 1101010 1101100 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; er, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word han is repeated.
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