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

Du nämner mörk en Wadenstjernas namn?
Jag vet, du syftar på en dyster sägen:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXaaX bXXcX XXddX eXfXX gXXXg XXXXX XXXeX eXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XgXXX bfbXX XXXXX XXXbX cXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011110001 1101011101 11110111 110111111 111101111 111111101 101111111 1101010101 10110111 10111011000 11010111 111101101 111111111 111110101 1111010101 1101111111 111101111 11111111 111101011 1101011111 111110101 11111101110 111111101 1101110101 10111010 11101111 1101111111 111111110 111011111 110101111 1111000111 1110101110 1101011101 11111011 11110101110 1110011111 111111101 11111011 1111111 110110110 1111110100 11111111 111111111 1101011101 1111111101 1111011101 111101011 110001011 11111111 111101110 1101111 11111111 110111111 11010111 1111011101 111110110 1011101110 1111110111 1111010101 1110101110 1101111 11001100010 111110111 111111101 1101010100 111001101 11110111110 110110111 11111111 111111010 111101111 111011110 1101011111 111011101 11100111110 111111101 1101110010 11111111 111111111 11110111110 111101111 1011111010 111011101 111111111 1101111110 1111101 1111111111 111110101 11111111 1111101101 1111010101010 111111110 101111011 11111111 1111111110 111101101 11101011 1101110101 11111111 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; en, hans, allt, r, och, i, s, f, han, t, gr are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words f, och, d 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 ll, r, jt, st are repeated).

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

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