This is an analysis of the poem Cæsarer that begins with:

Man skal ej dyrke Cæsar, hvis Cæsar ikke findes.
Det er saa skønt at kæmpe som at give sig hen....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXa XXXc XbdX XXAX XXXX XXXX XcdX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111110 10111111111 1111000101100 1111111111 10111011111 111101110010 11101111101 1111111101 1001100110011 111111011001 11111111110 11110111011 111101111111 111110110110 110001011111 111011011111 1110111011 111101010 1111111110 1111011100 1111011111000 110100110110 11101011001 11010110110 1101101001110 110011110001 111101101010 10111011101 1111000100111 110111111001 1111111100100 110111011001 1011011101110 111101011010 110111011011 1101011110 1111000101100 1111111111 10111111111 1111111110 111110100110 11101101101000 111111011110 01110110 0110110110011 111100100101 110101011010 111110110101 1101110111111 1111010110111 111111011101 11111110110 1101111011 10011111011 11111111100 10011101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; c, sar, at, da, jeg, en, som, i, der are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Cæsarer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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