This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann In Paris that begins with:
DER teufel's los in Bal Mabille,
Dere's hell-fire in de air, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXbXb XcXccXdb XXcXXXef XXXXgbXb hgbXXiXX eXXXigbX jkekkeaX XifihXaX Xlbljdkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110 10110001 010011101 110110 1101011111 110101 001010100 110010 101011111 1010111 11110100 110101 11110101 110111 01010111 110010 1110111010 010101 11011100 1111110 101010000 111010001 11110101 111101 010101000 1100111 1111111 11101 01111111 11111 11110110 010010 111111101 100111 11111001 110100 10010101 110111 11101001 110110 11010101 110100 1101010 111011001 11110100 111101 01011101 111111 11110101 110111 111110101 101110 10111011 110101 11010101 111110 11111111 110101 01010110 110101 11111111 110101 111110101 111001 1111111101 110101 10010111 010111 11110101 0101101 11010100 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; de is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dere's, id's, und, o are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word paris at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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