Poem Analysis of Ein Interview by Anton Wildgans for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Ein Interview that begins with:

Eljen a haza!' Haben Sie gelesen,
Daß der Schmock ist beim Le Beau gewesen...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX bbXXXX XXXXXX XXcXXc XXXaXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1001010111100 1111101100 111001100 1110011010 111111110 11101011 111111010 1010111110 101100001 110110100 101011111 11011111 1111001110 11101000 111111110 1011101010 1011010 11111011 1101011110 1110101000 111010111 111011100 11101011 111100101 111110100 111110101000 111010110 1101111110 1111011100 101001000
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
Average number of words per stanza: 33
Amount of lines: 30
Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der, ist are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.

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Ein Interview by Anton Wildgans: poem analysis

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