This is an analysis of the poem The German Hotel that begins with:

the German hotel was very strange and expensive and had
double doors to the rooms, very thick doors, and it over-...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbXcdaXefbegfXcgdcXfXgfX X XdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011101101011 10100110111010 1011010110010 0110011110101 101011011100 101110110011100 110111011111 10110101001111 100011111101 1110001001011 111010111111100 10101010011 1101 11111110111010 101101111010101 011110 111101011110 01001101 10111101111110 100001011011010 011001111 111001110110 10111111011 110110111111 1101111110110 11011110101100 1010111010 0110001101101111 10010110011110 0011111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, he, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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