This is an analysis of the poem Frithiof's Homestead. (From The Swedish) that begins with:
Three miles extended around the fields of the homestead, on three sides
Valleys and mountains and hills, but on the fourth side was the ocean.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacaXXXdXaeafaXccghiXgfXbaiXXcXbeXdfeXhfaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001001010011111 1011011110111010 11101011010011 100101111110011 1110010110111010 11010101101110 1110111001010 100101001111010 10101110111011 111011111010010 10101111011011 11110010011010011 10111110011011 10100101111110 100101111111011 1101011011100011 1110111110010 1101011010110111 101111011010011 101110101010011 11011111110111 100101110011010 1001011011010111 101101101010010 1010011010010010 110110101010011 100101111110010 1011010110011011 1101001111011010 110110110111001 100101111011010 100101110010110 10100101010010 1101011011100101 11011111001111 10111001100011 10101101010010 111100101111010 101001101010011 111011010010010 1101001111011010 10110101101111011 1011101110010010 1110110100010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2933
- Average number of words per stanza: 527
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, their, of, as, with, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ever is repeated.
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