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

DERR BREITMANN hear im Turkenreich
Vas fighten high und low, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababXXX acdcecXc bfbfXghX hdXdhihX XdXdXXXX XjbXXdXd XhehebXX khlhXXiX hfkXmfbf XgXgklhX hldlXcnc XjXjaXXX mjXjbbjb himihdXd XbXbelkl nlellfff hkbXXXXj XXaXajXX XXebjbhX ljXXXaXX XdXdXbdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100 110111 11110001 011101 11100001 11111 11011110 111100 10111101 111011 1101011 11110101 11110100 111111 1101010 11110101 10110001 110111 1111010 011101 1011010 110101 11110111 010010 11011100 01101 101100101 111111 10110001 110001 11011101 11011111 1111010 110111 1111100 111111 11110111110 100111 11001001 111101 1100010 110101 1100010 110001 0100100 110111 1101010 101101 1101110 110101 1101110 110001 1111010 110100 1011010 111011 1101110 11011111 1101111 111101 101010010 101010 1001110 111100 1111010 110111 100110 01010 1101010 110001 1101010 100101 1001110 101101 1001010 111101 11000110 111100101 1101010 110101 0101010 110111 1111010 110101 11111010 110100 1110010 101111 1101110 101101 1111010 110111 1011011 111111 100111100 101100 111110 111011 0101111 011011 1101010 110101 1101011 100101 1101011 111101 11101110 1111101 11101010 110111 0100110 111101 1111010 100101 1101010 110001 1111010 111101 0101010 110111 1111010 110001 1111110 101101 1111011 110001 1101011 111101 1001010 010001 0100110 01000 0101010 011101 1110110 110101 1100110 110111 111101 111101 1111011 11111111 111101100 111101 1111110 010100 0110010 101101 1110110 0111001 11011101 011100 01001101 101101 1111110 100101 011110 111101 1110101010 110101 1101110 110111 1111100 11011 1111010 110100 1010111 011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, und, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, dey, and, so, hei are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' 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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