This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann About Town that begins with:

DER SCHWACKENHAMMER coom to down,
Pefore de Fall vas past, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXC dXeaeXXC XXXbacXC XXfXXcXC dXfXfXXC gbXbaXXC dXXhXXXC hXbbXcXC gieidXXC XddjbXXc XXajaXXC XXiXhXXC XeXeXXXC bgXgXXXC XfafXcXC XXeXbXXC XjjXXXXC aXXXjXXC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000101 100111 111101010 110101 11010111 1011101 11000001 110011 11000101 1111110 01001101 011101 101000101 11110111 110111110 110011 11000100 110101 11110110 111111 11011101 11111111 011010101 110011 11011100 1100111 11101101 110100 110100100 01010101 11110001 110011 11010101 110001 11010111 111001 11011101 101010 11001101 110011 11100101 0111001 010000100 110101 11111101 11110010 11111101 110011 11001101 010100 11110110 100011 11110111 110111 110101110 110011 11010101 111110 11010111 010101 11111110 011101 110010001 110011 11000101 010111 01010101 010101 11010111 111101 11111101 110011 11010101 111101 11011111 110101 11110111 11111 1101001110 11011 11010100 110111110 010111101 01001010 10010101 1110011 01111101 110011 11010100 011001 11011101 0101010 11011101 1010 101110001 110011 11100101 0101001 11111110 110101 110100101 111111 11010011 110011 11100101 111111 11001010 1100101 11010100 011111 11000100 110011 11001001 011101 110111001 110111 11011011 11111111 110010111 110011 11000100 110101 110010001 11011101 11111101 1111110 11100101010 110011 11000101 110101 0111110 1111010 110011101 1111001 11011111 110011 11011101 1101010 01110111 10111100 11110111 110101 11011101 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; de, of, to, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, dey, in are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word he at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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