This is an analysis of the poem O Germany, Pale Mother! that begins with:
Let others speak of her shame,
I speak of my own. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab CdefX ebgeah icjhb hiXgj djigah jXie hffcXCjed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,6,5,5,6,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 11011 1100110 1111 11101010 1110 010100 010011 111 101011 1101 111011 000100 01111 101110 111000011 11011 0011 011 11101 101 1010 001 11001011101 001011 010 10101101 010010010 11010011 10110111 100101101010 001 0111 10001110011 11 10101110101 110010010 1100110 1111011 11101010 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
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