9, 11. _sen_--_vän_--an extreme form of the "Stockholm rhyme," the
vowels differing both in sound and in quantity.
20. The masculine epithet _ledsven_, in the midst of the feminine
_sagoförtäljerska, följeslagerska, bikterska, trösterska, drömmerska_,
is somewhat disconcerting.
_Babylons vimmel_ refers to the Babel of tongues.
22, 24. _stämma_--_hemma_--Stockholm rhymes.
34-38. Entirely in keeping with the poet's confession in these lines is
the recent estimate of a critic who says: "Oskar Levertin, who was not
ashamed of being a Jew, although his nature in a peculiar and fruitful
way combined the characteristics of his own race with those of the race
which fostered him, quite often struck the Jewish chord in his verse,
yet he took a purely esthetic view of the subject, treating Jewish
_motifs_ with romantic sentimentalism; at any rate, there was no
distinctively Jewish mind or creative power back of the visions and
songs of this occidental skeptic and art-dreamer." (OLOF RABENIUS in
_Ord och Bild_, XXVI, 492.)
64. _stämma möte_ ordinarily requires _med_ or _till_, thus: _där döden
med oss stämt möte_, or, _där döden oss stämt till möte_.