This is an analysis of the poem Cobus Hagelstein that begins with:
ICH bin ein Deutscher, und mein name is Cobus Hagelstein,
I coom from Cincinnati, and I life peyond der Rhein; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb ccdd bbXX XdXX XeXX ddXX ddaX ddXX XXXX eeXX XdaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111010100 11010101111011 11111010111111 1101010011101 111011001100111 11000000000111 1001010010001 10011111110110101 111010111111111 11110101110101 111111101110001 11111011111100 111011100111110 11000000000111 11010111110101 111111011101001 10100010110101 11111010011101 1101010111101 11010101110001 11100101110111 11000000000111 111110110111001 111110101110110 11111000100101 011000000000111 11110100110011 11110101010100 1111101111111111 1111010101011 110101010111001 11110101010100 111110101111110 11111100111001 111101011111100 1110111100010101 1011011110011111 11000000000111011 00111100110101 100101111101010 11111011111100 11111100101111 101001101111011 11011101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, dot, de, und, to, mine, you, vas are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dot is repeated.
The author used the same word den at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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- history of its creation;
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