This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann As A Bummer that begins with:
DER SHENERAL SHERMAN holts oop on his coorse,
He shtops at de gross-road und reins in his horse. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXccdX XeXXdXdX XcdeddXd fXagccdd XaccggdX XeeXbXXd c ggccXgXh XXXXXbXX ddcXaaXX ggXcffXh hXdXddXXhh aaeeXXXh XeXXXXXh gXcXddhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,10,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001011101 11101111001 1001101011111 11011001011 11111001111 110011001001 1111101011011 11011011011 110110011111 110011110111 111010111110 010111110010 11111011011 11011011010 1101110111101 010011011001 110111011001 1110110101011 110101111101 11001000111 1011001001 1001001101 11010011001 11101011001 101011101 1011001111 1001001101 01110001111011 111101011001 11101111011 10111111111101 100111011101 11010111001 1111111000101 11110110101011 11010011111 111101111001 111101111111 11111011001 01111011001 001001111111110 111001011011 101111101011 10111001010 11111111011001 11011011011 1010110110110 10111011101 101 011001111 01001011001 01101111011 111001010011 1011011101 1011011101 1011011111 11011111001 10010011001011 111011001101 101101111011 0010011010011 111101111111 11101111001 111011101101 101001111001 11111111101111 11011101001 101011011111 11001111001 1111111111101 111111101001 1110110111 11111011111 11001011101 101101111001 111111000001 001011101001 1101001111011 101101101011 111101110011 111011101001 101001111111 11011011011 111010111111 110011111010 01001111101 1111111101001 001011011011 1111101011101 11101111001 1111111111001 1111110011011 111010010011 10101110111 11101001111001 1110011011110 11011111111 11111001101 11111011001 101111111011 111111111111 111011111111 111001011111111 101011011010 111111011111 11111101011 111111011001 11100101101 1101111110 11101111001 101011011111 1110011010011 11011001001 11011011011 111011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; de, on, der, vas, und, he, breitmann, vot are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dey, lustig, und are repeated.
The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words ', ford, sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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