This is an analysis of the poem Hans Breitmann’s Christmas that begins with:

ID vas on Weihnachtsabend - Vot Ghristmas Efe dey call-
Der Breitmann mit his Breitmen tid rent de Musik Hall; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX bXXX ccdX XeXX ccXX aaXfX fXfgXa aaXX fhXei jjXXkX XXii Xclaa XXXm llkX eXXd ffXX iXhcX XbaX ddXd XaaekX eehf cXfff XXXXgi dXXdbb acaXXX kXXf bbbmm iXbb ccnn fXjj mmdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,5,6,4,5,6,4,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,6,4,5,6,6,6,4,5,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111000110111 110111010110101 101011101100100 11110100010101 1100111011011 101001011100101 0101110110101 1101010011110101 1111011110011 110111001110101 1101000100110111 110100111010 1100011000110101 1011111000111100101 1110101001110111010 1110010101111110010 111111011011 111111011101 11001000100101 11110010101110111 1110111000101011 111111111101001 1111110010111 111001 1111010101010101 1101110111101 11101110101110100 101 1111111011110 100101 11011101100101 11110100110101 11000110110101 11110111111101 111111101110011 110101001011011 11110010110111 11101001110101 101011110101110 111 1101110110101 110101101111101 111100101010 0100 10101101100101 0100 11111010110101 11110011110001011 11010110010111 1110100101010101 111110110111101 1111111111 10111 11011010110111 110011101111101 11110110110101 0101111111100100 0100100110110 010000100010101 1111100111011001 01011010111111101 1100100101100101 1101111100111001 111011110111 1111011000110101 11001111111101 11111101110001 111101110100100101 0101011000100101 111111110111011000 1110010101111010 11101011001100101 110111110110101 10101111011111111 11110111111011 111000 11011100111110 111011101110101 1011101100001 1010111011110111 111001000101111111 011100101101101 10101010011111101 110111100101011 11111100010 111 110100101111011 1110111101011 10101 11001101011111010 10010100010101 010111010010101 110111010010101 1110101111010101 1110010110011 0101011010100 1101010110111 101111101 10011101 111101001110100 111011001101 11101 111111101101101 1111001011110 1101 111011110110 111 1111011011001010 1110101111 110111 110101110111100 110101111100111 111111011 11111101 011101001110110 10110110111 1101 0111011010101 11010100111101 1111101011111101 111011101110101 11010101111101 111010101111111 11101101111 0111111 101011111110101 111110111111101 1111001011110110 11101010110111001 111111011110101 11011101110111 01011101100101 110101001100101 111101001101001 1100100110110111 01011101010001 010101011100111 0101010010001 010100010101001 01010101010001 10010110110101 1101011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (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, dey, und, he, hei, how, i, der, in, like, for, ve, goed, troonker, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, hei, like, 'vhy, ve, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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