This is an analysis of the poem Adlerereutz that begins with:

Hvem är den höge mannen där på älfvens strand,
Som skådar öfver fjärdarna och fälten?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaaXXXXXX XbXXXXXccX XdXXXXXXXe XXfXXgXggd hXhhXXXXXX aXXXXbbbbX XXXXXXXcXX XXXiXXXXXX bXXbXiXXXX XbXXXXXhhX bXbXXXXXXX XXXXXXXfXX aXXXXbXXXX XeXaeXXXXX cXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010111 1111011 11111111101 1111110101 1111110011 1110010111 10011101110 1110111101 11101101111 111110100 1111010001 110011111 1111111101 111111111 11011011 11111101 1101011000 11111101 11110011011 1101111100 111101111 11010111110 11111101111 1111101101 1101010110 011111111 111111101 011111101 0111011100 1101001111 111111111110 110100011 11111010111 11011111011 111101110 1101110101 1111111000 1101110111 11111111111 1111111110 1111010111 1101100110 11101111011 110101110101 1111111110 111101111 0101111100 11011011 11111111110 1101111110 11011111111 11101010 11111110111 11110111011 11010101000 1111011111 1011111110 111111111 1111111011 1111111010 111111011 1111110100 110011110001 1111111111 11010111 101110011 111111100 110110011 111111111110 11011101100 11111111111 111101110 1111111100 111111100111 111111010110 1111011101 1110111010 111111101 11111101101 11011111100 11110110011 11111111 110101010101 11010111011 0101010101 1101011111 11011111100 1111010111 1111111110111 1100111000 110111111111 111110110 1101011110 1101111011 11010011010 1111011100 111111000 11110111 110011110001 1110111010 111011101111 1101111110 1111101011101 1111010100 11011101110 1111111 11011011010 111000101 111111110011 11111101110 110111111 111101111 10010111111 111101111101 110111110 1111110111 1110111010 110110111 11111111011 1101001010 11011110001 1111101010 1101111101 111100110111 11110110110 111101011 111111110 1100011110 11010111111 1101101010 11111110101 11111111 111101111101 11111111111 11111101 110111111 111011101 111011111 11011110111 11111011 11111110101 110101110 11111111101 1101011101 1110111110 111111111 111110110 1101111101 111101111111 111101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 150
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hans, r, och, man, dt, som, af, han, en, f, den, ett, n, l, de, ng, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, en, han, och, ej, d, h are repeated.

    The author used the same word han 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 r, dt, den, n, ng are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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