This is an analysis of the poem Kejseren Og Den Fattige Kone that begins with:
En Kejser lod bygge et Tempel til Guds Ære,
de stolteste Søjler skulde Hvælvingen bære....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX Xa bX XX XX XX cc dd XX eX XX dd XX XX XX XX XX Xd XX XX fX fX Xe bf aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110111 01011101 110110110110 111110111 100101111 1111110111 1111111011 11011011001 11001111100 1001111011 1111111110 11111011111 110101011110 11011111110 110111011 110110110011 11011110101 110111111001 111110110101 111101110 111011001 110110111 11111011101 111100111101 11101011011 110111101001 1101000110110 110111011001 110010111110 11110111111 1111110011 1011000111101 110011011110 1111000111010 111010011111 11101110011 11011111100 010110101110 110110110101 1111101111 1101111010 11111101101 11011111101 1101101111 1101111100 011111110101 10111101101 110100111110 11001011101 1111101111 10011111011 10111111010 110111011101 11101111101110 11111011011 0101111101 11011101111 1111010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, min, jeg, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, som, til, da are repeated.
The author used the same words det, jeg 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 re, bte are repeated).
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More information about poems by Hans Vilhelm Kaalund
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