This is an analysis of the poem Vi Elsker Vort Land that begins with:
Vi elsker vort Land,
naar den signede Jul...
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXAXaaXba X AXXXXXXXXbX AXXXAXXaXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,1,11,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 11101 11011111111 111011 101101 1011101011 11011101101 11011111011 1111 111101 10101100101111 11111 11011 111001 1111010100010 111001 11111 1010011101 1111110110 1111011010 111011 111101 111110111010110 11011 11111 111011011 111001 101101 111011011 1111111111 1111101101 111011 101101 1110110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; over, den, naar, og, vil, vi are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vi, naar are repeated.
The author used the same word vi at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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