This is an analysis of the poem Frankfort-On-The-Main that begins with:
VONCE oopon a dimes in Frankfort der Herr Breitemann exsberiencet
an interfal pedween de periot ven he hat gespent de last remiddance ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXcXXXdXX X eaffXXgg hhXXaagg biXdX eeXX cXfXied
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,8,8,5,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010111001000 1100100101111001100 1101011010000100101 101010111111001 10110101111111101 11011011011011 101111011011111 10110000010100011111 11110100011110001101011 11111011010101011 10011111101001001100 1111100 111111 111010111110 11011111011 0101111010011 111111011111 0111111011001 11011011101 111001111111 111111011101 110111110011 111110111001 11111011101 110111110010 11111011111 1101111011 101011011101 111111011101 111111011111000 100111001101010010 10011011100010011 110111101101001 1101011011101 110010111110 110010010100 011011111101 11111011011 10001001111111001000 1111111111100000 1000100010101100 1011000001001101100110 1101101101010000 11010011000101010 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, he, mit, you, in, hearts, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wall at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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