This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann As An Uhlan. Ii. Brietmann In A Balloon. that begins with:

WHO vas efer hear soosh voonders,
Holy breest or virshin nonn? ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabXcd XXXefaXa XfXfXfXf XfXXgXgX XhahXaXX iXcXjjXX bahaakak XXalgabX XflfXXXX gjXjXkiX XlXlgeXX XXgkXXXd XababXXb akXkceiX faXalXlX bXXfclaX XXXdbhch XXgXXfXf XeceiXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110 1011101 110001010 1111110 1101110 1111000110 1100110 1110101 11101100 01010 1101010 110111 0100010 110101 11101110 1110111 01100110 110111 1101010 011101 1111110 1101111 1100110 01100101 1111010 110101 1101010 111101 11001110 11111101 11111010 111101 11101000 1101011 0101010 1110101 1111110 111101 1110100 010110 1111010 111101 111110110 010101 10101110 1110101 111011101 1010100 101010010 1010111 1111101 1011111 10101110 1011101 1011110 1010111 1111010 111101 1111010 1010111 111011010 1010101 111001110 1010110 11111110 11011111 110110 01111001 1111110 111001 11111010 1101000 0111111 011111 01011010 1111111 101111110 1011101 111111011 1110110 1101010 11101101 1110101110 001001 1111011 110111 1111110 001010 111110010 10101110 11101110 1011111 111111 100101 1110101 1111001 1111110 101110 011001 100100 1111110100 111111010 11100010 1110010 1111010 110111101 111100 1001101 11110110 1011111 1011110 11101 11010110 110101 11101010 0111001 1110011 11111011 11101010 11111010 1110110 011101 11011010 011101 00101010 110101 11100010 1110100 1111010 010101 0101010 1010001 11100100 11111101 110110 111110010 111111110 110110 1111010 101100 1111010 1110101 11111110 0011101 11101100 1110111 1011110 1010101 11101010 1101101 110101110 1010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 152
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; uhu, in, de, liddle, vot, ish are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words liddle, und, in, 'o are repeated.

    The author used the same word und 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.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase onwarts connects the lines.

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