I Gamle Dage Det Var Engang by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem I Gamle Dage Det Var Engang that begins with:

I gamle Dage det var engang,
at danske Folk var i Kongetrang,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 11111100 0111011 11010111 1111111 1110111 111101111 11111111 11111111 0111111 111101111 110101101 11111111 1010101100 11001110 111101101 111101111 1101111 010100101 111101111 01101111 11101101 1101111 11111100 11111100 111101101 111101111 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; og is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word med is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dt, n are repeated).

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