This is an analysis of the poem Soldatgossen that begins with:
Min fader var en ung soldat, den vackraste man fann,
Vid femton år gevär han tog, vid sjutton var han man....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXa bXXXaX cXXddc XXXccX XXccXX XXeeeb XXXXXX XXdXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111011011 1101111110111 1101111 101111111 11111111 111101 11111111110111 11111101111110 11111101 1101110 11011111 11111 1111111111 11111111111111 1111101 11011111010 111111 111101 11011101111111 1111110111111 1111111 1101101 1110001111 111000111 11011101110110 1111111110111 11011101 11011111 11011100 111101 111111011111 111010111101 11110111 11111111 1111111 1111101 111101111101 11111111101101 11011110 111111 1111001 111101 11011111110101 11011101110111 10101011 10111011 1011111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; han, var, r, i, jag, hans, h, hur, och, d, de, s, ej, samma, till are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jag, d are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tt, d, r are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase d connects the lines.
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- summary of Soldatgossen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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