This is an analysis of the poem Purzmalunder that begins with:
At
the age of five...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdeccdfghedXc ij XGkXgbl cGmg abgiil aXdmXje aeX jkGn ahjmXhfa iadaXil i iljagek gbgXg amc ancXhgnjmk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,13,2,7,4,6,7,3,4,8,7,1,7,5,3,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0101 111001 101 0 10 11 10 0 100 110110101 1 01010 1 10110 1 11 111011101 110 1111 110 001 1011 1 1 00101010 11110 110 0101 10 1 1001010 1 1101 1 1 1 10001100 10 1100 10000 10 00110101011 011001010101 1 1010 0110 101 110 010111 1 10 10110010 01001 1 1010 1 1110 1 011 1101000 1 1010110 01 1011 1101 1 101 1010011011110 11 1 1101010010 10 1 11101 11 1 1010101011010101 1 1101 100 1 11111 01 10 110 011 10100 1 11
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 75
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 13 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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