This is an analysis of the poem Til B. S. Ingemann that begins with:

Hvert Digterskib har tonet høit sit Flag
Og hilser Dig med Kongeskud idag;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,14,8,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100110111 1101110010 1111111 1101001111 11101111 110111111 1111101100 1101011101 11111110 110111101 111001101 10001011111 1111101101 1001111101 1011100111 11111100 1110111111 1101110110 110011011 11111011 1110001111 110101101 1111111100 111101111 110101011111 11101100 1111001111 110010111 110111111 0111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; jeg is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).

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  • summary of Til B. S. Ingemann;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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