This is an analysis of the poem Til Historiemaler, Professor Eckersberg that begins with:
Vi bringe Dig vor Hylding, kjære Gamle!
Foruden Faklers Glans, kun med en Sang...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXb XXXXXXXX XXXXaXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 1001011111 111111101 1101001101 111111110 11111101 111100100 10110011 1111011110 1101011101 01011101110 111101111 1101001110 0101011010 11011101110 1101111000 10010011111 111101111 11110111 1101110101 111111111 111110100 110110010 0111010100 11101111 11101111 11110001 11010011 1101010111 1100111110 110111011 110110011 1111111010 11111101 110101000 11111111 1111101111 11100011 11110110 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, s, og, som, vor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mens, som, vor are repeated.
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