This is an analysis of the poem To Sweden that begins with:
Lift thou thine ancient yellow-blue!
Aloft the front must show it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh ehabe Xh giXi aiai gagjgj ffXf khkh ci ii lhXh XXlb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,2,4,4,6,4,4,2,2,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 0101110 01010101 1101110 11110101 1111110 10011101 1101110 11110101 0101010 01010101 1101110 01010111 1101010 010010001 0101010 11100101 0101010 11 01 0101 0 101010 01010101 1100010 110011100 1011010 11111111 0101110 11010111 1101010 110 1 0111 0101110 11011111 11111010 11010100 0101110 11010111 0101010 11010100 011010 11010111 1111010 011101101 0101010 011001010 1101010 01110101 0101010 10010111 1101010 01101111 0101110 11011101 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; with is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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