This is an analysis of the poem Holger Drachmann that begins with:
Under Stranden gaar en ensom Ridder,
Kappen flagrer i den kaade Blæst; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXX XXXXX aXXXX XXXXX XXXXX bXXbX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111010 10101111 111010010 101101010 1110111 10101111 111011101 111010111 101110111 101011111 11101110 1101111 1110111010 1111101100 11011111 11111011 11010111 11111111 11000111 11101011 11111011 1101100 111001011 1001001 1010111 11000011 11111111 11110110 10110111 101110100 1110111110 101011100 101101110 10111101100 111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; hans, res are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word der is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines res is repeated).
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