This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann In Forty-Eight that begins with:

DERE woned once a studente,
All in der Stadt Paris,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcXX dbXbeXXX XfgfhXeX XXidXXjX iiXXjeeX XaXXXXXX XXcgklll ejjXejXj XXiXiXiX XimiXXmi XjeXXjfj XkXkkkaX aegeXnin XkXkXoXX jeXeXaea Xjgjmjoj iicXghmX XiXXekjk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1101010 101110 110111 110101 11000111 110101 110101 111110 11111101 011111 11100100 111001 11101010 11110111 11110100 111101 01010101 011101 01011101 110101 11010001 110101 110000101 1100101 11010101 011111 1111111101 110101 110110 110000 111101111 111101 11010101 110111 11111110 1110100 11110101 110101 11011100 1101100 11011100 010101 110111000 11110011 101010100 110100 11110101 11111 110101 110100 1101011 010101 1111010 1011101 11010101 1100101 10010101 1100101 1111101 111100 11101010 0010101 10101010 0011101 110111000 111101 100011111110 1100011110 1101010 111110 1110010 110110 11111010 10110101 1100110 1100111 1101110 111110 11101110 1111111 1111100 010101 0101111101 1100100 01100100 010101 11011101 110111 10100110 0101001 111110 110111 11110010 110111 0100010 1011010 1101011 111101 1111111101 110101 1100010 1111001 011101001 11100101 1101110 110101 1101111 10111111 1100110 110100 11011110 100110 10110011 110111 11101100 1011111 11100110 1010101 110101 1111101 11101110 1110101 111010010 1100111 1110101010 1111001 10101010 1110111 1101010 110100 10100110 111101 110110010 110011 1101100 111100 11110101 111111 110101000 111111110 01110101 110111 11011101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; der, de, dey, und, in, some, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, hei, und, some, doun, tree 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.

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