This is an analysis of the poem Löjtnant Zidén that begins with:
Det var den tappre löjtnant Zidén,
Han hade sin egen sed,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXX XXXXX bcXXX XdXXX XXXXc aXaXX eaXXX XafXa XcXXX XgXXg ahXXX XXaXX XbXXh XXXgX XhXXX XXXXX eaXXX XcXXc aXaXX dXiXX eXXXf iXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 111101 11011110 1101000 111101 111111010 1111011 11111111 111010 101011 11101101 11011 11101100 1101110 1111000 111111111 1111011 11111101 111110 1111011 11110111 111011 111101101 111000 110101 11111111 110100 1111111 1011110 111101 111111111 1111111 111111 11001110 11001010 11110111 111101 11101011 1101000 11111 11111111 111111 11110100 1101110 111111 111101101 11010111 11001110 1001110 0101101 1011011101 110110 111001101 11100 1101101 010111 100111 1111101 10101000 1111111 1111111 1101101 1101111 111110 110111 11101101 1101011 111111111 1101111 1101101 111101111 111101 1101011101 110100 010111 10011111 111111 1111101101 111110 1101 1100101101 10101011 111111 11001110 11001010 11110100 1111 1011111 11111110 111101 111101111 111111 1101101101 11111000 1111101 11111011 1110111 111011110 1111010 1110111 1110111 1011001011 1101111 111100 111101 110101110 11111 110011111 1011110 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 110
- 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; g, d, f, s, han, hans, de, r are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words f, nu, hans, d are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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