This is an analysis of the poem Det Musicalske Og Det Maleriske that begins with:

„Godt! musicalsk maa Digtet være." — Rigtig! -
„Og malerisk!" — Ret vel! Men vær forsigtig!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXX bbXX XacX ccXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101010 110001111100 1111111101 10111001 110010111 1110110101 111010110 11111111100 1101000110 11110100100 110111010 11011111000 100111010 11011101010 11111010 1101111101 11010111110 11011111010 11100111010 1111010111 110011111 110111101 0111011001 111011110 1101101010 010111010 11111111 11011011 100011111 11011111 11111111000 10010111000 111001100 110011011 111101111 110101101 1100001101 111101011 011101111 11111100 1100110111 110110111 11011101110 1100111100 1101110110 01010111010 11011111 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, med 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 gter, le are repeated).

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  • summary of Det Musicalske Og Det Maleriske;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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