This is an analysis of the poem Heroica that begins with:
Det er en Dyst at standse vilde Heste.
Det er en Dyst at vinde sjældne Kvinder,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXXXX XXXaabb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,7,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 101111110 111111010 111101101 101111100 1001111010 1101111111 11111010 10111111 1101111111 111101 111110110 111011110 1011001111 1011110110 11111111 110111110 1101111101 1111011111 11111111 111111111 101111111 11111101 101010110 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word det is repeated.
The author used the same word det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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