This is an analysis of the poem Den Lykkelige Maler that begins with:

Der er saa længe kriget fælt og pratet.
Nej de, hvis Hjerte rummer Farveskriget,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX aXa XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX Xbb aXa XXX XXX XXa XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101110 1011101000 1011001010 1110111000 1111101110 110111100 110111111 111101110 111110111 110111000 1011000 110111111 111101110 110101010 1111000110 11111101110 1011011110 01010111000 11010101110 111111100 11011001100 1101111100 111101111 11011110 11010101110 0101011110 1101111110 110100011 11000110 11011010 1111001111 11010011 10011100 1111111011 1101110101 1111010101 11101111 1111010111 11111001 11010101010 1101111000 1111110110 111101110 1101101100 1111011100 1111000111 11011111 10011100 1110101010 11011110100 11010111110 11010101000 1101111000 1111111010 110011110 1100011000 1101001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; han, ser, og are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words med, han, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, han 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 ser is repeated).

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  • summary of Den Lykkelige Maler;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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