Analysis of Til A. Oehlenschlæger

Hans Christian Andersen 1805 (Odense) – 1875 (Copenhagen)



En Sommerluftning, frisk som den fra Havet,
Og dog med Bøg- og Birke-Duft begavet,
Gaaer ud fra dine Ungdoms-, Manddoms-Qvad,
Saa styrkende! — Det er et Aandens Bad!


Scheme AAAA
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Rubaiyat 
Metre 1111111 111111111 1111111 1110111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 173
Words 30
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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