This is an analysis of the poem Von Essen that begins with:
Han stod på sin farstutrappa
Med mössa af krigarsnitt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XbXb XXcX XXcX XdXX XXXX XbXX XXXa XXXe dfdX XXXX XXgX XhXX XXXb XXXX XXcX XXXX XXXe XXXX XXXX XhXh XgXX XXXX XXXX XcXX iXiX XXXX XfXX XXXb XXcX XXXX XgXg XXXX cXcX XgXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111000 111100 11011000 11111 1110100 111111 11100 1010111 11111010 1101111 11011110 111101 10011100 110111 0111110 0111001 11011110 1111011 11011110 111111 1111110 111101 0111110 0111011 11011110 1101111 111011110 110111 11001100 101101 1101110 11111 11111000 101111 11011000 1111011 1111110 11111 11111100 1101111 11001110 1101111 11111101 11011010 1111100 111111 1111100 1101111 1101111 1111101 11111 111101 1111011 1111101 11111 1111011 110100 110111 11100 110111 111111 1101011 111101 111101 1111100 1111011 11011110 1111101 1111110 1111111 11111100 111111 1111110 1111111 1111111 1111111010 11111110 0111111 11011100 1101111 1001110 1110011 110111100 1111011 1111111 1111001 1111111 1101001 11111100 110111 110111010 11011011 111111 1111111 111111 11110 111101010 111101 1111110 110101 1110110 1101111 1111010 1111101 11001110 111101 1101010 1101111 1111111 1101110 1111111 1101110 1111101 011110 1111101 111101 1111100 1101111 1111110 1110111 11101 1101100 1110110 111100 111101 111111 1111011 100110 1111110 110111 11111010 1111111 11001010 111111 1111010 1001101 111111 11011 111101 1011101 111111 111111 11111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 144
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; r, han, och, d, som, st, jag, s, det, ngen, n, en, ren are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words med, han, du, nu, som, och, det, d are repeated.
The author used the same words han, jag at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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