En Kiempe-Vise Om Goliath Og David by Hans Adolph Brorson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem En Kiempe-Vise Om Goliath Og David that begins with:

Goliath drog fra Gath,
For at legge Saul i Skat,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXbX XXcXddXXXaeeaacccXXXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111 111111 101111 111011 011111 1110111 101111 1011011 111111 11111 11011 0100111 111111 11111 111111 111001 011101 1110111 111111 1011111 10110 00101001 101111 11111 10111 111010 11111 111111 11111 111001 101111 1011101 01110 1010111 101101 1110101 11111 1011101 101101 111011 10011 11111 10111 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 585
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; j is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines j is repeated).

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