This is an analysis of the poem Hanchen, The Maid Of The Mill that begins with:
Near the village of Udorf, on the banks of the Rhine,
There lived a miller and his family, once on a time;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc aadd ecba baff ffgg ddhh ddcc iijj bacc abcc bbdd gggg aakk kkcc ggkk ddll kkdd ecab ccgg mmaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010010101001 11010101001101 111101001001 10100101010001011 010101001011111 100111010101 0101100101 01101110101 1101010101010100 11001111101 10100101101011 1110011100111101 10010010111011 1101000111011 11111011101 11010100101111101 1111101101 01010101111101 11101001001 1011111010011111 111100100010001 001110010001 1001010111010110 11111101101101010 1111011011111 11111110101 1111010101 1110111001 110111011101 010111001111 01001010101 11111000111101 10110110100101 100011111101 10010111101 1110101010101 1100011010101 1100101001001 101010110101 1101100100100101001 11100101001 0100101010111111 10101001101010101 11111111010101001 1010111101101 111101011101 11010011010101 111101011111011 1101110111 0101011001001001 1100100111000101 111010101111 10101100010101 10100110111 1111001100101 110111011110111 1010110110100101 101001111001011 1110110001010111001 101101111001101 11101110011 1100101101 111100100001110 111011111011 101011000111 11011010110101 11111011101 11101110100111101 110100110100 11110101011101 11100111110 101010101001 1010110100101 1010111111001 1101101010100101 101011011001 11101001001001 111010101 11010011100010101 11010101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, she, him, he, her, his, my, to, boy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, then are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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