This is an analysis of the poem Digterens Lyksalighed that begins with:

Lyksalig den, hvem Phæbos Harpen rækker!
Hvis Tinding han med Laurbærkrandsen dækker!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111101 110111001 1101110001 111 111001100 110111100 1101011001 111 111101111 1111001111 111111001 111 111111011 11011111 1110101110 1110 1111010010 1111101100 1101011101 1100111 1101110011 110111100 11110110010 1110 111111101 110111111 110101110 11111 111111011 111111111 1101110101 11100 111001101 11111111 1101111110 111000 110110110 11011100 1111101111 111 1101100011 111011100 1100111111 11111100 111111010 110111111 110101111 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, i, ham, man are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kker, rk, mmer, d, er are repeated).

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  • summary of Digterens Lyksalighed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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