This is an analysis of the poem Sveitseren that begins with:
Farvel du gamle Qvinde, nu gaaer jeg, mens jeg kan,
Til Kongen udi Frankrig, han eier et sieldent Land....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab XX Xb XX bX XX aX XX Xb bb XX XX bb Xb Xa XX XX XX cc XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011111111 1101010111101 1111011010 110101011111 111000100101 11010111111 1101010110101 101111011101 1110110101 1111101110101 1101110110111 110110110100 110110101101 11011101110 11111011101 110110111101 1100110110111 11111011111 1100110110101 110010011101 110110110110 1111101111 0101011111 111110111110 011110111101 100011111101 11101110111100 11110111011 11101110110110 11011110001 1111001011 111010010111 0110111001 0101011111 110111111 111110110001 111110111101 11011100110101 1101010111101 11101011111 110101111011 11110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; den, og, de, han, du, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, og are repeated.
The author used the same words om, du, jeg, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sveitseren;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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