This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann’s Going To Church that begins with:

D'VAS near de state of Nashfille,
In de town of Tennessee, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcdc XXXedXfX ghXXieXe jXgXdXXa akhkXkfX XldlmahX keXeXdhd XXlXXcXc XXXacdcd XkXXXaXX XXkelchX mgaXXgXX XagXdghX XdlXXXXa alXlkfXX lXfXkXga kjgjdaXa geXeXdXX efXfgklX beXedkkk XXlXXdXd XfXfXXhh lfXXgggX aikihaXn dklXadXX XeXeXXbX XXXXXhXh XgXXXkXX Xig
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 0010101 1101110 1111010 110011101 11111 11010111 110111 111101010 111101 11111111100 111101 10111100 101100 11110100 111110 11110101 1100111 1101100 111001001 11010111 01011111 11010110 11011001 11110111 111011010 01100111 1101010 01110110 110111 10010110 110101 11111101 110011 11111010 0010101 11111010 110101 01001101 010011 10111100 111001 110111001 011111 11010110 111011 111000010 010010 111111011 110101 11111010 1101101 11011100 111111 11111010 0010100 1101110 1101001 1101110 110110 11110100 1111111 100110100 010111 1111111110 11100 1110010 110011 01111001 110111 01010101 1010111 110101100 100111 011111001 100111 11110100 1111001 11011111 111001 11110100 110111 101010101 0110101 01011111 000101 11011101 110111 11001101 111001 11110101 1101000 11010110 111111 11010010 111111 10110100 110101 11110101 111110 1001110100 11110101 11111110 111111 11011010 111101 010101001 111100 11011101 111110 0010100001 0100101 11111101 110111 001011111 111101 101001101 111101 010101010 010101 110111001 100111 11110111 111001 11010101 011101 11011101 110101 11010101 110001 11010101 1101001 11010101 010101 11011110 010101 111111001 110111 11110101 100101 11011101 100101 11111111 111100 11010101 1101001 010010111 010111 110101001 1111001 11010101 011011 11010101 01111101 11101100 010101 10010101 111101 01100101 011001 1100110 011100 11010101 110010 0101010 110011 011111100 010101 1000100 110101 110110 100101 11001100 110100 010101010 110101 1111010 100111 1111000101 101100 11011101 011101 1110111001 110100 110010111 1100101 110010101 111101 101010101 1010101 1010110110 1010100 1101111101 110101 11000101 010101 1110111101 110101 11011111 111101 10010000 11111101 11110101 111101 11001111 11111101 11111101 011101 1111110 011110 1100010 0100100 1101010 1101011 1101010 110111 1111010 1010111 1110010 111101 1101110 1110001 1101111101 1100010 111110100 110101 11101011 100111 10101110 110111 0111110 1010101 1100010 10111 111111110 1100111 110111110 0100101 10111110 1011111 111101 1101010 1111100 10111111 1101110 1101010 1101010 110011 01001110 0100111 1101010 111101 1111100 111101 11101010 111111 1110110 110111 111001101 11101 10111111101 110111 101101111 11011 11110010 11101 00101010 0010111 0100110 111101 1111110101 111110 111110010 1111001 10011100100 111101 10011100101 110101 11010101 11100101 1101110 110101 1101010 110101 111101010 111011 010100 110001 1111010 110011 100111 11101 1111110 0111001 11101010 0101101 0101110 1101001 0101110 110101 111101110 1100101 0101110 010101 111111111 010111 11010101 0110011 110111111 0101010 1101110 100101 1100010 110001 1100010 010101 1111110 110111 11010011 111101 010011 010011 0101011 011011 1000110 1101001 11001101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 328
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; und, vhere, de, dey, der, you, to, ash, dinkin, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, verdammt, vere, dey, de, like, and, ve, of, ach are repeated.

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

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