This is an analysis of the poem Trosskusken that begins with:
Gamle Spelt, skall han så helt förgätas? Nej!
Han var kusk vid trossen, högre var han ej,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb cXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX ddXX eXXX ffXX gXXX ccXX ffXX XXXh XXXX XXeX XXXX iXXh ggXX jjXX Xibb aXXX XXXX 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,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 1111101111 1111011110 111111101110 10111011111 11111110 111010111010110 10111111110 110111111 1010101111 1111011111 1111111101 1001011111 1111111101 111110111 11101110110 10111110 111110111 10100111000 111100111010 111011111 10111111111 111010111110 11101111100 1011111111 1111011100 101111010 111111101 1100110001 1110111111 11011111 11111011111 11110111 1011011100 100111101 111111 1111111101 1101111101 111110111010 11111111110 11101111111 10111111 1110111101 101111111101 11101111111 11011111 11110101010 11110111110 101111101 101111101 111110101000 10111010110 101111011 1110111011 11101111110 1111111110 11101111111 11111111 1111101010 11101111110 11111011101 1110111010 10011011110 11111111110 11111101 1010111001 011110111010 111011110110 11111011111 1110111111 111111111000 01111101110 110111101 1111110111 111111111010 11110111010 111110101010 10111011 111111111 1111111101 11111011 1110111100 10111110110 111010111110 1010111101 1011010101 11111111110 1110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; han, n, och, p, s, en, f, som, hvem, har, r, man, jag are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words samma, hvem are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines der, mnas, lja, r, sa are repeated).
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- summary of Trosskusken;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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