This is an analysis of the poem En Svensk Konstabel Fra Sverrig that begins with:

Nu vil jeg indvie jer i
Historien om en Person, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXX XaXa aaXa XcXc XcXX XXXX aXXb XXaX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 1001110 11100110 1111110 11110110 110111 11111110 1111110 111100 1111110 11110111 11001110 10011110 111001 111110110 111001 11011000 11111 1011010 10001001 110110110 1111111 1101110 100110 11011100 1111100 11001000 11011100 010001 11101 10110010 1101101 11010110 1111111 110011110 1111111 111111110 11001011 0110110 1111101 111110100 11111 11110100 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, han, l, det, er, paa are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

    The author used the same word han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of En Svensk Konstabel Fra Sverrig;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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