This is an analysis of the poem Landshöfdingen that begins with:
Gror bragdens ära blott på stridens mark,
Där tappre krigarn fuktar den med blod,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbb XXcX XXXX XXXc dXdX XXef XgXg XbXb dXXX XXXe XXXa hXXi XjXj bXbX XcdX hfhX iXXX XXgX dada XhXh XXXX XfXX bjXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111101 1011010111 1111011 11010 110111111 110111101 11011111 11111 1001111101 101111 110111111 10111 11110011 110111111 1111001111 101111 11110111 10011110 1111110010 111111 1111011 111101110 111111101 110111 111111110 111101011000 1101011111 11100 111010110 1111010111 111101101 11111 11011000 110101010 1111111111 111111 111011111 111011101 1110111 1100111 111010101 1101110111 1111011111 1101 11111011 1101110110 1111010111 11111 111110111 111111010 1110011100 11011001 11111111 11110111 110011111 111101 111100101 1111011111 0111011 11111 1111011101 1101111101 110111101 110111 111111111 10111101 111111111 111101 110101011 1110111111 111100111 110111 11111100 01101011 111111011 111100 1101010101 110111101 111111111 11111 111110111 11011001 1111111110 11001 110101010111 011011101 111010100 111101 110111011 111101101010 110110101 11011 110111111 110111111 11011110 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; n, var, hans, han, en, r, och, v are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words och, att are repeated.
The author used the same word och at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases hans, den connect the lines.
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