Analysis of I Fru Tesdorphs Stambog

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




Hvor Luther talte og hvor Goethe sang,
I Nabolandet gik din Vuggegænge,
Hvor Bølgen bruser høit om Dannevang,
Dig blomstre Livets Rose frisk og længe!


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11011111 111111 11111111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 159
Words 27
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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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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