Jeg Lægger Alting For Din Fod by Holger Drachmann: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Lægger Alting For Din Fod that begins with:

Jeg lægger alting for din Fod:
Mit stærke Haab, mit stolte Mod...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXX aXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,6,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 1111111111 111001011 111011111 011111 1110111 1100111110 1111111 111111 0111010110 1111111 1101111 1111110110 11110111 10110101 1101101000 1111011111 1111111 1111110101 011111101 1100111 1011110110 11111101 1101100 111111110 1110111 1111111 111001011 111101 11001101 1101101 11111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; mit, jeg, v are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, da, jeg are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rd, k are repeated).

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  • history of its creation;
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