This is an analysis of the poem Christian Den Fjerde I Søslaget Ved Femern that begins with:

Stemmer i; thi nu ville vi sjunge!
Mens fjerde Christian var Konge,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXaXXX XXXXXX aXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111 111011 1101110 11001010 11111101 11011011111 01101110 11101010 110011010 110110010 11111101 11011011111 11111011 11111001 11001011 1000111 11111101 11011011111 11111011 1111011 10111010 111101010 11111101 11011011111 010111 111111 110110110 111110010 11111101 11011011111 11111110 11010110 1101111 1101101 11111101 11011011111 11011111 1111100 111110 110110110 11111101 11011011111 1111001 1010101 10101001 101010100 11111101 11011011111 111010110 110110110 11111100 11010110 11111101 1101111111 11111001 11001101 1001110 0101010 11111101 11011011111 1111011 1011001 1111011 11110110 11111101 11011011111 1011011 1111111 1001101 111111 111111101 111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; der, han, hvi, skulde are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, paany, hvi are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kke, det, rke, kket, de are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word grav at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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