This is an analysis of the poem En Lykkelig that begins with:

Det var en Julinat, hvis Duft
Og Varme fyldte Jord og Luft....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXXXXXXAaXXXbXXcXddXXXXXeXX fffcccXXXXXbXgXXhXXXXXXXaXieeXXiXXXiiXXX XjXaXXfXXXXXXXXXXgXXXXaXaXXXXiXXX iXkXjXXXXXXXaahhXXXXXXiXXXXXlXXXXXmXXXllXXXXXXmmiXhhXXilXXaaXlXXXXXcXaXjXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXiX XXXXXcaXXbXXXXXeeXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,40,33,106,98,96,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011 111111 1001101 110111 11110100 1111101 1001111 11011101 111011 110111 11001101 111011 1101111 11011101 1110101 1111101 111111 10011111 11011111 1101111 1111011 11010111 11100101 1101111 11111101 11110111 11110101 1110011 111111 1101101 10010111 1111111 11011111 1101111 1101100 1110110 1111111 11110111 111111111111 11111010 1111101 1101111 1111111 1101101 1111001 1111111 11011111 1111011 11110011 11011101 1101111 11111011 1101111 11101111 1101111 11110111 1101011 1111111 111011 1101111 10010101 11010101 11010101 11011101 111111 1111011 110111 11010111 11111111 11011101 11000111 11011100 11010111 1010101 11110110 1111111 11010101 11110111 11010111 11111110 1101111 11011101 1111111 11110101 111110 11110111 11111110 110101 1111111 1110111 11111111 1101011 11010111 11110111 11110010 11110111 11010111 1101111 1111111 11101110 1101111 1111111 1111101 0110101 110111 1110111 10011100 1101011 1100011 1100011 1101111 11110100 11011101 1101111 110111111 11111 1101101 110111 1011100 11111101 11111101 110111 1101111 1111001 10011001 1101011 11110011 1111111 11011001 1101011 11010100 1100011 1110101 1101011 111111 11010000 101001 11110010 11011101 1111010 11111101 1101101 1101111 011111 11010111 110101 1101111 11101100 1001101 0111111 1001101 1111111 100111 11111101 11111111 11110101 111111 111111 1111011 1110111 111111 11011110 1101101 1111111 11011101 1111111 111111 1011111 11110111 1111111 1100011 1101111 1101101 1111101 11011100 11110101 1111101 111111 1111001 1110101 11111110 1110111 1100100 11100111 110111 10110110 1101111 1111111 11111101 11111101 11011110 111111 1101111 1110110 1111101 1111011 110111 11011101 1011111 1111111 1101110 111111 101111 111111 1110100 1110111 1101101 1100111 1110110 1110101 10111101 1010110 01110101 01011111 11111010 1111111 110111110 11111101 11011110 1111111 1101111 11001110 1101101 110111 1111100 111100 11010111 11011101 1110111 1101100 11011101 111111 11010110 110100101 11010110 11110111 1101111 1111101 1111111 10111101 1101111 1111101 1111 11011100 11011101 11111111 1101101 1101111 11101101 11111110 110110 1110111 111101 1101101 1101111 101111 11111 10011101 111011 11011101 111111101 1001100 1111010 10111110 11010001 11001101 111111 1101111 1111110 1101111 11011100 1111101 11011011 111101 111011 1110111 101111 11011111 11111111 1111110 11011101 1111111 1111101 1111101 11010010 11111111 11011101 1100111 1101011 11110111 11011011 11111111 11110111 11111100 1101111 11011101 11011101 1101011 1011001 111111 1111111 1101111 10110110 1111011 11010111 11110011 111111 1001111 11011101 111011 111011 11001101 111011 1101111 11111111 111111 1110111 11111101 1111101 110101110 1111101 11111111 11100111 11100111 1111101 11110101 11111111 11111101 11100100 11110101 11011101 111111 1111011 1111101 11011111 11011101 11110010 11111111 1111101 01011101 1111111 1100111 1111111 101111 1101111 11011111 11100111 10011111 111111 11011000 1101111 11001111 1111011 110110 111111 1101111 111001 111111 1101111 1101011 1100011 1101011 1101111 111111 11000110 111111 1101101 111011 111111 111100 1100100 111010 111110 11000111 1011111 1111001 1101111 11111111 1101111 1111011 111111 1110111 1101111 110110 1111111 11010111 1111011 110111 1111111 111111 111111 11000101 1101111 111101 11011111 11100111 110111 11111101 1110100 1101001 11110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2097
  • Average number of words per stanza: 416
  • Amount of lines: 402
  • 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; i, den, et, k, det, var, som, efter, blev, og, han, naar, d, ved, med, hans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, at, end, det, han, og, naar, der, en, i, eet, med are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines k, r, rk, d, i, dt, n, mt are repeated).

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  • summary of En Lykkelig;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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