This is an analysis of the poem Lotta Svärd that begins with:

Ännu så händer det mången stund,
Då vid kvällens trefliga härd...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX bXbX cXXX XXdX eceX XXfX fXfX gXgX XXXX XXXX XXgX bXbc XhcX iXXX XXXX XXXX fgXX XjXX XidX aXaX XXXX hkhk XXaX XkXk egeX hlhl XXXX XXcX mXmX XjXc fkXX XXXX XgXX XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX cdcd XXXX XcfX XfXX XhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 1111001 111101011 11101101 110100111 1111101 1011000101 1110 111101101 110101 11011111 110101 111111111 11001101 1110110111 1111111 111110001101 11111 1111000101 110101 111000101110001 10001101 111011001 1100011101 111101111 1000101101 111011111 111000101 111000101111 111111 1110111 1010101 1111101101 111111 1110111 110011 11111101 1101101 110111001 1101 1111110 1110001101 11100010111 11101101 1110101111 11000101111 110100010111 110111 110111101 1110110001 11011000111 1110011 10101010 111011 11101111 1101001 10001101011 1111 10110110001 111100011 1111111101 1111111 11011000101 110110001 11100010111 1011111 1101011101 10110001110 101100101 1110001111 11111000101 1100011111 11111111 10111110 1110001111011 111110 111100111 11111011 111011011010 101001100010 11011111 1101111 1101001001 11011 1110001111 1101101 11111111 1111011 11010111 1111000111 11111000111 1101101 1101100011100010 111100 100010101110001 11101011 111110110001 111110 1101110 1110111 111111101 110111 110110111 111111 100011111101 1111111 1110101101 1111110 1111010111 111011 11010111 111111 1111101101 1111011 110111101 11101010 11010111 1111111 11111111 111111 10001110111 11110010 111100111 11111 11110111 10111010 110110001010 111011 110111111 10111101 111111101 1110110 110110001111 1100111 11111000111 1101101 111111101 1010101 110100010111 1100011001 11100011101 011111 11111111 1101110 011101111 11111101 1111101101 1111011 110111101011 1111101 1110101101 11100101 11111101 1100111 1111011001 1110101010 1111110 1110101 111111110 01111 1101101101 11111101 1111101101 110111 100111000111 11111001 1111111111 10101110 11101111 1100011111 110010111 110001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 43
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 172
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; och, t, p, hon, r, var, en, den, n, s, sin, med, jag, du, det, d, f, till, g are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words en, och at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    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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  • summary of Lotta Svärd;
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