This is an analysis of the poem During A Journey In Sweden that begins with:
My boyish heart in thee confided,
For to the great by thee 't was guided....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab b XX aa ccdd ccee Xcff gXaa gg bb eeXX XgbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,2,2,4,4,4,4,2,2,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 1001111110 11110011 01010101 11110111 111111110 11010111 11011111 110011010 010111010 11010111 11110111 110111010 110101010 11010001 01110111 010101110 110101110 110010111 11011111 110111110 110101110 11111101 01010101 1111000100 1111110100 01011101 101010101 011100010 110100110 11010001 01111110 110111010 110100110 11111101 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; thee, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words too, in, when, thy, thou are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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