This is an analysis of the poem Gamle Lode that begins with:
Ständigt, förrn han gick att strida
Och till anfall order gaf,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa bXXXXXXc XXXcXXXX deXedXXX XXXXXXdX XXXXXXXd XXXfXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XdXXXXXa XgXgaaXX XXbXXXXX hXhXXXXX XXdXXgXg XXXXXfXe XXXXXdhX XXXXXecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 1110101 111110 1111101 0111100 1111111 11100 111101 10111010 1010101 10101010 1110110 11111 111011 1010111 110011 1111111 1101111 1110111 111111 1111010 111111 11111010 101011 11110110 1111111 1010101 1011111 10111110 111100 11101110 11111 1011110 1110111 10101100 11110 1111010 1011101 1111110 1111101 1011111 101111 111111 1010111 11011 11110 11111 11101 10111110 1010101 111111 101101 1110111 1010111 101011110 11111 1111110 111101 1110110 111111 111001 111101 11111 110101 1111101 1111101 101101101 101111 10111010 101111 1111110 1101010 111110 1011101 1111100 101011 11001 111111 011111 1110001 1111110 1111101 11111110 1111111 111111 1110111 1110111 1110111 1111110 101111 01111010 1110111 10101110 111111 11111010 11110 1011101 1111001 111111 111111 1111111 1111111 111011 1110111 1111100 11111 11101010 11111 10101110 10111 11111000 1111111 11111 1111011 11110100 1111100 11111110 1011111 10111010 11111 1111110 1111011 1010101 1111101 1011101 1111111 1011111 1011111 1011100 1110111 10101100 11110 101111 111111 1011111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; n, och, i, v, var, r, d, det, hans, st are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words var, hvar, d, ingen, det, s are repeated.
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