This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann’s Sleigh-Ride that begins with:
VEN de winter make oos shifer
Und de bonds is froze mit ice, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabXbc XdXdXeXX bXbXXfXf XdXddcXX XXgXXeeX XahaXXXX hXbXeiXX bXbXfXfX XXXdXjXj fXXXXbeX XiXiXXgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 10101110 101011111 01111010 111011101 10101111 101111111 01001110 0010111 10110110 10110101 10111010 111110101 10111010 110111 10101010 110101 1101011 1101001 10111010 110111 10101011 01011 1011010 1011101 11101010 010001 11101010 1110101 111010111 110111 1111010 111111 110111010 100101 110111010 111001 11111111110 1111011111 11111010 111111110 1111100 110111 10101010 110101 1101110 110101 1010110 111100 1101110 110110 11111010 010111 1111010 11111011 1111010 111001 1111110 010111 1101011 011111 1101110 110001 10111010 1011110 1101110 110111 1111010 111001 11111110 100011 1100011 11011101 111010100 1111001 111111010 110101 1101110 111011 11101 111111 1110110 010101 1011110 010101 1101110 111110 10101110 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 88
- 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:
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; de, und, mit, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, mit, dey are repeated.
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