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

Her staaer jeg gamle Kæmpe fra Fjerde Christians Tid,
Og skued gjennem Secler snart Himlen mørk, snart blid....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXXc XXXX XcXX XXXX XaXX XdXb XXXX XXbb XddX XbaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111111101 111010110111 1101010011111 1011111111 1101110110111 111110111111 111110111111 1011110111101 10001011001 10111011100 1100011100010 1001111110100 11111101111001 1111100110100 111101111 111110101101 101110111011 111110110001 1101111111110 11101011111 111110011111 110110011111 111101110 110100011101 111101011101 111111101 11101111111 111111001 110101011101 11111000101 11010101111 111010110101 10001111101 100011110100 1000111011 1111101110101 111111111 1111001101 010011110110 111111110100 110100011010 1111110111 100011110111 1011111101 010100110111 110111101100 1101010011011 1111110010111 1011100100111 11011011101 1100010101111 111111111111 11101011010 1111110111 111111101111 11101110111 0111111101 111010100011 10110101111 111110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, i, til, velsignelsen, og, dig, meget are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words velsignelsen, og are repeated.

    The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Rosenborg;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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