This is an analysis of the poem Sven Dufva that begins with:
Sven Dufvas fader var sergeant, afdankad, arm och grå,
Var med år åttiåtta ren och var ren gammal då;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb XXXX ccXX XXXX XXdX dXeX XXXX XfXc XbgX XXXX XXXX XXfX bbXX abXX XXXX ddXX bbXX eXhh XXXX XefX cXXX XXXX XXXX ddeX XdcX bbXX XagX XXXX
- 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,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110100111 111101111011 1111101111111 111111111111 1101111110111 101111111110 1111011111101 11111111111101 110111110011 1111111111111 1011110111111111 111111111111 11010101111111 111011111100 1101010111010 111111111111 1110101110110 1101101110111 1101011111111 1111110111110 11100110111 110111111011 1110111110111 111101111111 11101111111 1111111111111 101111111011 110111101100100 111011111100 11111111111101 100111011011 1110111110111 1111001111 1101101111101 1101111111111 1111111111 1110111111 110110011011 1101011110100 1111111110101 11110100100110 1011101110100 11111111111 11111111101 111010111111 1101101110111 1111011111101 11111101111101 1111111011 1101101111010101 1111011111011 1101110111010 11110111011 1111011111011 11111111111 10111011110111 11111111011 11111111111111 1111111011111 1111010111111 11111011111 1101111110100 110101111111 11111011111 110111111101 11111111111101 111110110111 11111001110111 11100111110101 11110101111011 11001111111 110110111101 111111111010 111111111001 11101111111 110111111100 111111111011 111111111111 101110011111101 101111111100 111011111101 111111011010 0111101111011 11111111111 11101111111 111111111101 11110111110 11010111111101 11111111110 11011111111 1111011011111 11010111110111 1000110110101 110101111111 11111101111101 1111101111111 11111011111 111111110111 11010111110111 1110111110101 110111111111 111110011111 110110111111 11111111111 11011111111 111000111111 11110111111111 111111111101 1101010111111 110110110101 1111011110111 11101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; och, var, f, l, n, r, han, om, gev, t, en, p, g, den, i, hans are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, och are repeated.
The author used the same word den 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 r, t, ng, dt, tt 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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