This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann And The Turners that begins with:

HANS BREITMANN shoined de Turners,
Novemper in de fall, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXb XcaXdedX XXbcXXXX XXXbXfXf XXXXXeXe XXdXXbdb XgXgXXXh XeXebXfc XhfhgeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010010 100001 111001010 100101 110011000 1111100101 1111011101010 11101011 11010010 111111 1101001101 1110101 111101011 1111101 111011111101 00111111 11010010 111001 111010001 1110101 11110001 1110101 01111101 1111101 11010010 11111011 11101100 1100101 110100010 110101 111101101 1110111 11010010 111010111 1110010111 010101 10101010 0101111 111110001 1110111 11010010 01010001 111001101 10111 1111110 111111111 111110101 010101 11010010 111111 11011000 010101 11010010 110111 01110101 010101 11010010 110011 10101110 110111 11111110001 100101 1110111111 110101 11010010 111001 111010101 1010101 101011011 1110111 111111 111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; de, und, in, dey, to are repeated.

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

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

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