Niels by Holger Drachmann: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Niels that begins with:

Til Dig, min Dreng, ej nogen Krans,
Som Kirkegaardens Graver...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbX XaccX dXXXX XXXXX XXdXX XXXcX XeXde bXXXX XbXXb cedXe XXfXX XXXXX XdXXd dXXXX XXXXX XdXXd XdXXd XXXXX fXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 1100010 100101 1001011 111000 001111011 1101110 1111101 1110101 111110 01111111 1111110 111100110 1111100 1100100 1111111 1111 11011111 1111111 110111 11010111 1111110 11111 1111101 110110 1111111 111111 11111 111110111 11110 111111 1101110 11111101 1110111 1110110 11011101 10111 1111111 1111110 111111 11111111 101111 11111111 11011111 110111 10111101 1111110 11111111 11110111 011110 0111101 11101 0111101 10111111 110111 11011101 110011 11011101 1101011 11111 1110001 1111 1111100 1111011 11111 11001101 111111 11101101 1111101 111111 11010011 11101 11111101 1011101 1111 11111111 11011 11001111 111011 111111 11010111 111111 1111011 111101 111111 11110011 11111010 1101111 11111111 1111110 0110111 11010 11101 11111101 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 95
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, for, den, vi, hvor, ham, ej, du, ser, gt, vort are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, om, du, det, fra are repeated.

    The author used the same word du 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 b, gt are repeated).

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  • summary of Niels;
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