This is an analysis of the poem Gustav Adolph that begins with:

Med Seier krandset stod den svenske Hær,
For første Gang var Tilly overvunden,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXaXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXbXbXXc XcXcXcXc XXXdXXXe XXXXXXXX fXXgfXaX XhaXXhXX iXiXXXcc XXXXXXXd fXfXXXXX XXXXiXXX jXjXjXXX aXXXaXcX XXXXXjXX XacaeaXX XXXXaXXX gkgXgkXX XgXgXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101111 1111101000 1101110111 1101111010 111110101 1111111010 11110111010 11010101100 11011111 1111010001 1101010011 1111111 11111101 11011111 110111100 11111101 110011111 100100011 111111111 110101011 110110111 1101110010 11011111010 1101111100 111101111 1111111000 11011101 11011101110 111010011 11011110110 11010111110 11011101010 111111101 1101111010 1101111101 1001011110 111110100 1101111010 111101110 1101101010 010111101 110111011 1111111 1011110101 11011011 110110011 111110110 1011111111 11111110 11110100100 1101011110 11011111010 1101011101 1111110100 1111111010 11111011110 1101110111 111111101 111101111 1101110111 111110111 110100111 1101110101 1011011101 111010111 111111011 110101011111 110111111 111110111 111011101 11101101 111111111 110101111 1101101100 11011011 110111110 111101101 1111111100 1110111010 11010111010 1100110111 1111010100 11110111 1110111010 1111111 11011001110 111010010 11011111 10101111 11010111010 1111010111 1111111010 1101011101 11011101100 1101111101 110101111 11100101 11110111010 111001111 1101111010 110111111 11010101100 111101111 1101111101 1101010111 1101011110 1100110111 101110110 111011101 1101100110 1101110111 111011011 1011011101 1101110001 1101011101 111111101 110111001 110101010 11110111010 1110111100 1111010111 11010111010 111111011 1111101110 110101101 1110111010 001101011111 111101011 110011111 11011111 1011101100 1100111111 1111011101 111111101 110011111 111111100 1101010011 110111110 1101010111 11011100100 110111101 1011111000 110111111 1101111101 11101110 11110110111 11111111 101111111011 1101000101 1101111101 1101011100 11111011 110101111 1111011101 1101010110 1111111 110101011 1101000011 1101011101 111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, hans, og, naar, paa, en, der, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, der, hvor are repeated.

    The author used the same word hvi 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 den, lger are repeated).

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  • summary of Gustav Adolph;
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