This is an analysis of the poem Sangerens Lykke that begins with:

Paa Montferrat i den gyldne Sal
Der lytter Ridder og Frue...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXbX XXXX aXXX cXXd XXXX XXXX bdbX XXXX XXXX XcXX X XXXe aXXX XXXX eXfX gXgX XaXa XXXX XaXa XXXX cXcX fXXX XXXX X XXXX XXfX XeXX XXXX fXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001111 1101011 111110100 110111 100101100 1101000 11011111 1101100 11110111 1101101 110110111 110110 10111111 1101010 111101100 10011010 11011101 101100 11011101 1101011 1101011 11111 1011011011 01111100 1111111 1111010 111101101 1001101 11111101 111011 11011101 1110100 11010011 11101 10111011 11010 111111001 1101101 11010011 111011 10010111 1101111 11011101 1101100 1 110011111 1010101 10101110 110101 11101001 1110010 11100011 11100110 111111101 1111011 11011011 110101 111111101 1101111 111101111 100100 111110101 1100001 10011111 110101 0100101001 1101101 1001011010 11001 110001101 110111 101111110 1101011 110101101 110101 11011101 111001 1100011011 110111 100101100 110101 11111101 1101110 110111101 1101111 110101101 11111 1101110101 11111 111100100 11100 11101101 1101111 1 111101100 1101011 100101100 1101111 111110100 1111011 11101101 1101110 110111011 11111110 100001110 1111001100 11011101 100010110 11010111 11011110 0100101110 1101110 110111101 11101110 1111101 1111110 111110010 01010010 1111010111 011111 110111101 1101111 11111111 11110010 01111111 111011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 130
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, du, det are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, , og are repeated.

    The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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  • summary of Sangerens Lykke;
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  • history of its creation;
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