This is an analysis of the poem Answer From Norway To The Speeches In The Swedish House Of Nobles, 1860 that begins with:

Have you heard what says the Swede now,
Young Norwegian man?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcccc dcdXeeaa fgfghhdd fifiggbb d ijdjkkll fbfbddcc kikikkddXkdkdllgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,1,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011 11101 11111011 10101 10101010 11101010 1111101 1011111 10111110 100101 11111010 10110 1101000100 1101011100 1010101 1011101 10111110 11100 10101110 01110 1110110 10111010 11100101 0011101 10111110 01111 10101110 10111 111010010 11101010 111101 1110101 10111110 1 1101 10101110 10001 10101010 11100110 1011101 1111101 10111010 10101 10100010 10101 11100110 00111010 0111101 1110110 11101110 10101 11101010 10110 10101010 10111010 1011101 0010001 10100110 100111 10101110 11111 01101101 10101111 11010101 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.

    The author used the same word says 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 there is repeated).

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  • idea of the verse;
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