Kampen Mellem Havmanden Og Biergtrolden by Schack von Staffeldt: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Kampen Mellem Havmanden Og Biergtrolden that begins with:

Vellugtende Linde,
Hvor Sangersker boe!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXXb XcXXdeXe XXXXXXXX XXaXaaXX XeXXXeXa XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXaaaXfX XgXgXgXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXgXXXX XXXdXXXX fXfXXXXX dgdgXXXX XXXXXXeX XXXXXXXX XXXXXhXX fXXXXXaXaXhXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XaXibXXXXcXXXXX iaXXXX XXXfXaXXXXXXXXXajjffXXffkkXhXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,25,15,6,31,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001 11001 11011 1101 1101 1111 11111 1101 11000 10111 1111 11011 11001 11011 1111 1110 1010 1111111 1010 11111 11011 1101 1111 11111 1101010111 110010111 11001111 110001101 110111101 1101010111 111101001 1100110110 1110001110 1101111111 110110110 11101111 10111110 10011101 111111100 11111101 101011110 111111111 101111010 111111111110 11101110 1101111101 111111110 11100011100 111101111 11101111011 1101000010 1111101 111110101 1111111 100101110 11100101100 1001110111 111111111 01011111 110110101 11101011 110111101 111111110 11110111000 11111111 1111011001 111111110 11111101 010111111 010111101 111110110 11101111 11111110000 110111010 1101010010 110011100 1111010010 100111011 0101011111 1101100011 11111011010 11111111 1110101010 110001110 1111011100 011110111 110111010 1111111101 111011100 11111111 1101111110 110111001 110111110 1111111 01100101 1101111110 1001011100 101110100 110010011 1101010111 111101100 100011010 11010111 11011101 010110010 1110111 110001010 110101110 111101100 1101010111 111011101 111111100 1101011101 0110011001 111111 110100111 11010010 110100111 11101010 11101111 11011101010 100111001 1111111100 111001111 1101001100 1111111001 1101010111 11000101 010110111 11100111 11111111 1100000111 11111011 11011101 101101111 11001111 1111010010 111001001 1101110110 111011100 1110111 1111111 11110001100 0111100010 110010 111011 1111100 111 11001 110111 111111 11011 11101 11111101 11000101 110111 110101 110101 1001011101 11111011 11010010 111110 110011011 1001111 1100111 110 1111 111101 1111101 1111 111001 110000 11001 1101 11010 1101 10101 1101 11010 1011 1101 11111 1100 11101 111110 101 11011 11100 11011 11101 1101 1111 0101 110110 1100 111 111111 1110 11110 11010 11100 11010 1101 110110 11011 1001 1101 1101 1110 1110 11010 11110 110110 11010 1101 11101 110010 1101 1101 1101 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 221
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; svanhvide, mig, jeg, og, r, i, sin are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, du, i, med, den are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rger, ger, re, gte, ngde, rme, kke, mper are repeated).

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