This is an analysis of the poem Dieses Haus Wird Demoliert that begins with:
Armes altes Haus, vielleicht noch heute
Kommen sie mit Hacken, Schaufeln, Karren,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXX XXXXXX XXXXXa XXXXXXXX XXXaaX XXXXXX XaXXXXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,8,6,6,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011 10111111101010 1010011 11111011110 111011111 11101000 1011101100 11001010 111011100 1011101000 111100100 101111110 110111101100 1111101 11111011111 1100110 1011101010 1010110100 110101010 1010101000 1011101100 1011100100 111001100 110101100 100010110010 101001101 1111011 1110111 11010010 100010111110 11001101 111001010 11111000 111111 1110101000 110100100 1111111001 11011011 1011111110111110 1010011 11111011110 111011111 101011110 1110101100 11111111 1010111100 11111110 11101110 1110110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; von, und are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nden is repeated).
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