This is an analysis of the poem Konungen that begins with:
Och konung Gustaf Adolf
Stod upp uti sin sal,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbXc DcXXXXXXXX XXXeXXXX XXXXXfXf XeXeXXXX XcXXXXXX AXXXXXXX XXXcXXXg XgXXDXhX XahXXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 111011 111110 111111 111 11101 101110 110010 1100110 11100 110111 1111 1111110 111001 110110 1111 111111 110000 1101 111111 10001 11101 1111110 1101 1111110 110010 110100 1111 11100 110111 1111010 101101 1111010 11011 1111010 110111 1101110 1111 111111 11101 110111 11011 1100100 11010 10101 01101 111110 11001 1101010 10111 1111010 111101 1111110 110111 1111110 1101 1101110 1111111 111110 100101 1111110 111111 111010 111101 110010 11111 111111 111101 101110 01101 11011100 110101 1001010 110111 11010100 111001 111111 1110100 111110 11100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; r, det, er, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words och, vi are repeated.
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- summary of Konungen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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