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

HE sits in bivouacke,
By fire, peneat' de drees; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcb XXXXadeX XXaXXXfa dXgXXXXb egdhgiXX XjXjfdXX XbXbXhXX XbXXakXk dXlXXXXb ciXigllX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11010 1101001 0100100 110101 01101 111001 10111010 010101 110100 11111101 0111010 010001 11111010 1100101 101010010 1011101 10100100 110101 11101011 11100100 11111000 111110 1111110 111010101 1101111 110101 1101010 110100 11111101 1110101 10110000 001101 11100010 110100 11100011 1111001 1101110 1011111 11101010 11010 1111110 111101 1100010 011101 1101010 110101 1101100 111111 1111010 101101 11001010 1110101 1111110 101111 1100110 110101 11111110 1110111 110110 1010001 11100010 10100101 11111110 11101001 1111010 110010 00110010 011101 10101000 111101 110110 111111 1111010 111101 1111110 100111 10101010 1110101 1111010 11110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • 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, dey are repeated.

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

    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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