This is an analysis of the poem Torpflickan that begins with:
Och solen sjönk, och kvällen kom, den milda sommarkvällen,
Ett sken af mattad purpur göts kring bygderna och tjällen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbb XXXa XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXb aXXX cXcX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1101111110100 11110101110011 110111111011 0111011110101 01110111110111 1110100110101 01011111110001 1111011111101 1111011111010 1111101101110 1101101110111 11011111101 1000111111111110001 1101111110001 100011101111101 1110001011000110001111 11011101110111 11111110001011 1111111101 1111011111101 1101011011010 111101011111010 100011111011111 110111110101 1111101111101 1101110111101 11111111110 1101111111101 111111111111110 111101001111110 1111101111111 111111110111 1101111110110 11111101110110 1000111000111110101 111111111011 11111111111010 1111010011011010 111110111011 11010101111101 110111011000100110 1101101110100 111111111101 11011111101 111111011100110 11111111111110 11111111111100 110101111011 1101111111110 111111111101 1111111111101 1101010111011 110111111101110 11010101011000 11111111010 1111011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; och, llen, de, var, l, f, g, hon, s, som, ga, en, fr, r, han, d, har, jag are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, han, jag are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines llen, ngen, g, nkte, ga, st, ter, de are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase han connects the lines.
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