This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann In Rome that begins with:

DERE'S lighds oopon de Appian,
Dey shine de road entlang; ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXde XXdXaeXe daXaXefe edXdXgcg ehXhXaXX XiXXjhXh biciXcgX XXkXdlaX miXXXnXn XdldaolX XbdbXaaX XnlXXgkX pdldhhXX XjXXXaaa XdlXdlfl XXgnmaha olalXiaX paXalhdX
  • 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: 101100100 110110 10110111 011001 01010101 1111 11110011 110101 11011101 111111 101110111 11010 111010 011101 11011111 110101 1001111101 10111 1111010 010101 1101110100 110111 01010101 110101 1100010 1011101 11011111 110111 11111110 110011 101110101 110011 1101010 110101 1111111 111101 11110010101 110001 11111101 111100 1101110 110111 11111100 100100 11010101 111111 11110101 110011 11110101 111101 01011111 101101 1111110100 010111 11111111 101111 1110110 1010100000 110100101 11000100 11110101 111101 101111001 10011 10101010 111111 11011100 110101 11100010 1111011 111100 1011101 11010001 1111010 01110100 11101110 1111010 11111101 1011010100 111001 1101100 01001001 1110010 1010111 01010110 1111001 10100010 101010 110101010 1100101 110011 100111 01110100 111101 1000101 11101 11011111110 011001111 1010100101 11111111 111011010 1111001 11010000 111101 10111110 110110 11111110 110111 1111010 0010101 11101101 110101 11110111 011101 1111010 101110010 110111111 101101 11111110 1011100 11110100 111001 10011011 110111 101000010 11110101 01110001 010011 11110101 11001 11010101 011101 1101100 1011001 11111111 1101010 10101010 100101 10111010 110011 1101010 110011 11010101 100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • 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, mit, day, und are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words und, boot at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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