Drost Høst by Holger Drachmann: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Drost Høst that begins with:

Tog de dem for over Eng og Kær
— En formelig Hær...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXA aXXXaX XXXXXX bbaXXXXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110111 11001 11011011 111101111 11010 1010111 1101111011 11101 111101101 110101111 11011010 111111111 11111100 1111110 11010111 11101100 1100 11011111 11001110 1111101 11011101 1111101 1111001 11011111 110101011 110111 1101111011 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; og, den are repeated.

    The author used the same word drost 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 r is repeated).

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