This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Apout De Rowdies that begins with:
De moon shines ofer de cloudlens,
Und de cloudts plow ofer de sea, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacXXX XdXbXXeX XXXXXXdX XaXXebcX XbXXXXaX XXdXXbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110010 10111001 11101010 111111111 1101010 1101111 1111110 0101111 0111110 110101 111111010 11010101 111010010 1101001 11101010 10001011 010111010 110001 11001011 11001001 0101100 0101001 1010101010 1110111 100101110 0101011 1100010110 11010101 0101011110 110101 10101000 11001011 11111010 11010111 111010010 1111100110 11111111011 111111 101011 11101111 01010010 1110101 1110010 1101111 00110110 1100011111 11101110 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; de, und, i, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, de, i are repeated.
The author used the same word de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- Analysis of Breitmann As An Uhlan. V. Breitmann In Biouvac.
- Analysis of Breitmann In Holland. Leyden.
