This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann As An Uhlan. that begins with:

O HEAR a wondrous shdory
Vot soundet like romance, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcdc efXXXXXX Xgdgecac XXXXXXdX XXXcXfXX XhXhieXe XdXXXjXX XXXXfkdk ifXfXgbg lfdfXlXX fmXXbclX XXbfXkmX XjXXXXgX XjXXXXld
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 110101 110111110 110101 0101010 1110101 110111010 1101101 11111111 111001 1110001 110010 1111101000 110101 1111010 1001110 1101010 110101 111101010 111001 00101111 111011 11111110 101101 101011100 1101101 1101100 111010 10101100 1111000 1011011 11111110 11101000 01001 010101 010101 1110100 1110101 01110100 1111101 1011010 010111 1011010 1010101 11101001 1111001 1111110 1110111 110100 1011101 111011000 101101 11111010 111111 1111011 11110 11110100 110101 1110101 111010101 0110010 111001 0101010 1011101 11111101 111101 111111010 1100101 1110100 111101 11111010 1011101 101001110 10010001 1101010 111101 11101000 111101 11000100 110001 11101110 111011 111110010 1111101 1111010 1110101 111111 1000100 101011010 111011111 0101110 101001 10101110 1011101 0111111 01010101 1011010 1111111 1101100 110110 1111100 0101111 110101 1111101 0111010 110111 1110010 110110 0110010 110110 10100011 011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, dieu are repeated.

    The author used the same word ja at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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