This is an analysis of the poem Thekla. A Swedish Saga. The Temptation that begins with:
On the green sward Thekla’s lying,
Summer winds are round her sighing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaabXacddc aXeffXaaeggeddhiihffiXaiXbeXjeeeXeeX jjiaaijjdjjdddfXXfeedjjdeeiaai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,36,30,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 10111010 1010101 01101010 11001010 0110001 10111100 01101010 1010111 10101101 11110111 1011101 11101110 10101100 0010101 10101010 101101010 1010100 101010100 011000100 1110110 1000111010 11101010 1010111 11101010 10101010 1010101 1110101 1111101 1010101 10101010 10101010 1010011 10101110 10101010 0010101 10101010 00101010 1010101 101110110 10101110 00100111 10101011 00111111 1001101 11111001 11101111 1010101 10100010 00101010 1110101 10111110 101111010 1010111 100101010 11100110 0010111 11101010 10110110 1010111 10101010 10101010 1010101 11111010 10110110 1111101 11101011 11111011 1010111 10101010 11110010 0010101 10101111 11101111 0010101 11101010 11101010 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 847
- Average number of words per stanza: 153
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, thee are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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- summary of Thekla. A Swedish Saga. The Temptation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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