Til Den Helliganede by Schack von Staffeldt: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Til Den Helliganede that begins with:

Hændelsen, omvunden af din Kjæde,
Tam ved dine Fødder ligge maa;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXb XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100111 111111 10101111 11111111 10110101 1100110 1110111 11101011 1101101010 11100110 11001011 10001111 0011001 11111010 11101011 11111111 10110111 11101011 1111111 111000101 001101111 111011101 111011111 111100111 0111000110 11111100 1001101110 10001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; du, og, din are repeated.

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

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

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