Analysis of Til Christian den Ottende

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



Din Naade mod mig, Konge, blev det Fyr,
Mod hvilket Tankerne i Natten drage.
Du giver Solskin til en Digters Dage,
Og de forvandles til et Eventyr.


Scheme ABBA
Poetic Form Enclosed rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 11111111 111111 11011111 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 152
Words 29
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Hans Christian Andersen

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