This is an analysis of the poem Jöderne Under Træet that begins with:
Es war ein alter Mann,
der nahm ein junges Weibchen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXbb cXXcXXbb XXXXXaaX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1111010 1111110 111101 01010 0111010 101111 111111 011101 111101010 11110 110111 1110010 0111010 101111 111111 10011 1111100 1101110 111110 111100 101110 111101 1111111 11011 1011110 111000 111110 111100 011111110 11011 1111110 11111 111111 110100 111110 11111101 111110 01101 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word er is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gen is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word viel at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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