This is an analysis of the poem Veteranen that begins with:
Han reste sig ansenlig
I stugans skymda vrå,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXX XbcXXXXX XXdXXbcX XeXXafXf XbXBXXXd XXXXXgXe XXXXXdXX XXXXXfXf XBXXXXXX XXXXXfXX XXXXXaXa XgaXXXXX XXXfXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXfXXXX XgXgXXXf XdXdXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 110101 111111 11011 11110 11010 11100 111101 1001110 110101 1101010 11111 1101110 1111 111110 110011 11111 101101 101011 11010 11110 10111 111110 110001 111001 111101 1111 11111 110010 1111 111110 110011 101110 11111 110100 110011 1111110 11100 111010 11011 11110 110101 110101 111111 11010 11111 1111010 1111 111010 110100 1101110 110111 11111 101111 110100 110100 111101 11101 1111110 111110 110111 11111 110100 111111 110100 110011 111110 11011 1111110 1010101 111111 111100 11110 11111 110010 11001 110100 110111 111111 111111 1111110 1111 1111110 111101 111101 11111 1111000 1010101 1011111 11111 111101 11010 100101 1011111 110110 110101 1101010 11011 1111 01111 111111 111101 110101 111011 11101 110101 111110 11101 111101 11011 111110 111 1101110 11101 110100 11011 1111010 1111 111110 11111 1111010 111101 111100 11111 110101 101100 111110 11101 111101 11011 110111 1101 11111 111101 110110 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; och, den, h, lls, man, s, hans, n are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words och, d are repeated.
The author used the same word och at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase n connects the lines.
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- summary of Veteranen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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