This is an analysis of the poem Das Krist Kindel that begins with:
I had fed the fire and stirred it, till the sparkles in delight
Snapped their saucy little fingers at the chill December night;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXb ccdd cXcee ccff ggdX hhaea ibijj eeee bbkk XXcc eLEe bbbb fcfff eLEX bbjkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,4,5,5,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101101010001 111010101010101 10101110111011 10 01110101110101 111010101010101 101010111010101 101101101010001 11000100010101 101001101010101 00101010101100 1 11110101010101 001011101010001 10010101010001 11010100010101 01111100011101 101011100010001 11010100110101 101010101110101 11010100010101 11010110001100 11011101110101 01010100010101 111101011100111 110110110101011 1 111001101111101 11101011101010 1 111110101010101 01011101010100 111110101010001 101010101010101 111011100110001 11010101010101 101010100010101 11011101010100 111111101010111 101010101110001 111010101010100 1101010010111 111011101010101 110100100010001 101000101010101 101000101010101 11110101110101 11111100100001 11001101111111 101110110010101 10010100010111 111010100011101 111010101110101 101010110111101 1 111011101010101 01000101011101 101000101010101 101000101010101 11110101110101 11111100100001 101010100010001 11000111010101 111010101110100 1101010101010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, i, like, they, with, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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