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

Och efter kvällen räcker till
Och minnet ger oss glädje än,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbbbcX XXXXXXcc dadaXdXX XXeXXXff bXbXXXeX bXbXXgXX XXXXXXhX XXcXfXXX XXXXXbbb XXXXgXXe XXdXXXXh dXdgXXii XddXbbbb XXXdeebX XXXXeXff XXXXdXXb XfXfXXfX XXXXfXcX fXXXXbgX XXXiXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 1101111 1101101 110111 1111101 1111011 11101111 111011 11111 1111010 11010101 10111 11011101 11100111 11010101 101101 111111 11011111 11111101 111111 1111101 1111111 111111 11110 0111100 1111101 11011101 111101 011101 1111011 1111111 111101 11110111 11110111 11110111 111101 1111111 1111111 1111111 111101 1111111 11011101 111111 111111 1111011 11111101 1111111 10111 1101101 11110111 11110101 10111 111000111 11111111 11111110 11111 1111111 11010111 11011111 11111 1101111 11111111 111111 110101 1111011 11111001 1111101 111101 11100100 111101 1101011 101011 1101101 11010111 1111111 110111 11111111 111111 111111 11111 111101 1110111 1111111 111111 1111111 1111101 1111011 1111010 1110101 1111011 1111111 111111 111111 11011101 1111111 11011 11110111 111111 11010111 11111 1111101 11111111 11110101 11011 11111111 11111111 1101010 11111 1111111 1111111 11111 10011 1110101 11010110 1111101 111100 1101111 110110 1111001 111101 111111 11010111 11101111 11111 11111111 1101110 011110 01011 1111010 11111111 1110110 1011 1111011 1011011 111011 110100 11011111 111101010 111111 111101 11111101 11011100 110111 110111 10110111 1111101 11111111 11110 11111 1101011 11101111 11111 101111 11010111 11101101 110001 11101110 111111 10111101 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; d, det, och, l, r, man, f, hans, s, han, n, g, t, de, h are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words och, den, en, var, n, som, de are repeated.

    The author used the same words man, och, hans 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, l, st, g, r, n are repeated).

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  • summary of Kulneff;
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