This is an analysis of Valget by Emil Aarestrup.

Kom, danske Folk! Tørklædet over Næsen!
Den Rettighed, hvorefter du har sukket,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
  • Metre: 1111101 11001000110 110111110 111111101 1101010101 110001011110 11011111000 1100111001 1111010011 101011111 011111101 111011101 1001011111 1101111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

her

Epiphora

sen