This is an analysis of the poem Vilhelm Von Schwerin that begins with:

Och öfverstelöjtnant Drufva han stod
Bekymrad nu:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbbXb XbXbbbXX cXcXXXdX XXeXXXXX XaXaXdXX eXeXdXbX XXXXfXXX gegXXXXX hXfXXXbX XbXbXXXX hXhiXXXX XXXXXXXf jhXhaXXX ababXXXc XXXXXXXi XjcXXaXX gXgaXXXX
  • 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: 11001011 1001 111111101 1110 11110101 1010101 11011110 1111101 11111100010 1100 111111101 111 111101011 11001110 1101100 111111 111100111 1111 11110111 1111 11111101 11111101 11011110 1101111 110111111 1111 1111111 1111 11011110 11111111 11111111 1101101 1101111 111 111101111 1111 111111101 111111101 11111110 11111111 11101111 11011 0101001011 011 111100111 110111110 1111110 1111101 1110001001 111 11111111 1111 110011111 11111111 101110100 11111 11110111 1111 11110111 1101 11111111 11111111 111111 1101111 110111101 111 1101101 11 111111 1101111111 111110 111011 110111111 1110 111101101 1111 11111000111 1101111 11110110 1111001 1111111 1101 111101111 1111 11110111 1110111 111101 11111 11111111 1101 1111111 11 1111101 110101111 1110110 1101101 1111001001 1111 110111100 1111 11111011 1111101 110010100 11111111 11111101 1111 11111101 111 1101101101 11011011011 11011010 1001111 11110111 1111 111111101 1111 111111 1111111 1110001 1111101 11110111 1111 1111111 111 11111111 1101111 11101110 1101101 110101101 1111 1111111 111 110010101 1100111001 11101110 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, d, h, r, ni, jag, de, han, hans, ng, f, rrn, och are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words och, en, de, han, d, den, f are repeated.

    The author used the same words och, han 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 tt, r, ng are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase d connects the lines.

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