This is an analysis of the poem Holger Drachmann that begins with:
Han kom til de higende Ynglinge-Hjerter
i flot realistiske Attituder,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XaaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXbX XXXX aaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1110101010 111001000 10111101010 11110011111 1111010110 11001011100 11001101110 110111110100 0101101101 11111101111 1111011110 1101100110 1101111000 110011010 1011100111110 11100101 11011010010 1101101010 1101111111 1111111100 1110111111 1110110101 11001111010 011100100110 111000111110 1100101100 111111001 11111001011 11001111011 11111111110 10110011110 110101111 110110100 101010100 10101101101 11111101100 1100101110 1110101011 111111111110 1110110011 110010101110 0111101010 1101011011 1100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, sin, og, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hvor is repeated.
The author used the same word han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de is repeated).
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