This is an analysis of the poem Den Tappre Landsoldat that begins with:
Dengang jeg drog afsted,
Dengang jeg drog afsted, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXbbXX XXaaXXXXXXX CCXXdddXXXX XXaaXXXXaXX XXeeXXXXXXX AAXXXXXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,11,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 101110 1111 11111 110111 111101 1111101011110 111101111011 11101001111 110111110100 101010 110111 110111 0111 10111 11111 11011 11111011111 110101011110 110101011110 110111110100 101010 110100 110100 100110 1100110 11111 110011 1111111110111 111101101111 110101111111 110111110100 101010 110011 110011 111101 1111101 110111 111001 1101011111101 1111010111101 110011110111 110111110100 101010 11101 11101 110011 1110011 110111 110111 111111010111 011011111001 111011111110 110111110100 101010 110111 110111 1111 11111 11111 110111 111111111100 110111111111 11011111101 1111111100 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, hurra, og, han, ei are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dengang, min, naar, om, og, vi, for are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines afsted, med, moer, ord, her, enhver, veed, ned, trods, os, land, mand are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hurra at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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