This is an analysis of Marseillasen by Peter Andreas Heiberg.

Op, I brave Marseillaner,
Op at kæmpe hver Galliens Mand,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbbXXXXX XXXcaXXXD aXXXXXXXD XXXcXXXXD XXXXXXeXD XXXXXXeXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,9,9,9,9,12,
  • Metre: 1111000 1111101 10011010 1101100 1110110100 1111111 11011101 101101110 11011 110111 1010011 11111 11110110 1101101 111111100 1111101 11001110 101110101 111111 1100101 110111100 1111010 111101 111110 11101011 1111101 1101100 1101011 10110011 110111100 1111010 111111010 111111000 111111 1010111001 1010111 1101110 1111001 110111100 111110000 111111 10111100 111011111 110101100 10100111 1111011 1111100100 110111100 100101 110111 10101001 1011111 10110110 1011010 1101011 1111111 11011 110111 1010011 11111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 60

Repeated words/phrases

eders, i, franske, og

Anaphora

op, h, til, skj