This is an analysis of the poem Schnitzerl’s Philosopede that begins with:

I. PROLOGUE.
HERR SCHNITZERL make a ph'losopede, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XabXcXXX XbbbXXdX deXXXXXf XXdXXXgh XXXXXcXc XibXfXca X XXXcXgXX XXXXXXXX XbXbdbXX XjdjeiXi XXXXhXXX XXXXdXeX XXXiXcXX XiXiijXX XhkhXjgX hXXXXiXX XbXXXaXX XfXXfXXX XaXaXXXb XbkXXgXX XcgXbXfX XgXXXlfl bXhabXiX hiaXaibX dhcXXXXX XbeXXjXX XbfXXXXX XdlXbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110 11010100 100101 01100101 110110 11100101 1011111 111010101 111111001 11110101 11011101 11110111 1100111 11011101 110111 111100101 111110 0101110101 110111 010110001 100111 110111010 11110101 1110111 110101 11111101 111110 111100101 111100 11011001 111111 11111110 110111 1101111100 101000 0111010001 110101 11101101 011101 11011101 10101101 11101000 11111011 01010101 110010 11111101 110101 01010101 010101 1110101000 1101110 1100001 11011000 0010111 110110110 110101 1111100 100101 1101010 100110 1101110 110101 00100110 11110 1110110 011011 1101110 110001 0101110 110111 1111110 1010111 1111010 1111110 1111101 110001 1101011 111101 11010110 100101 110111100 111111 1111110 111000 1111110 110101 11110101 111101 11011100 1111101 1111110 1101101 110001 11011101 1011010 110111 1110100011 010101 1001010 1100111 111110 110001 110001100 110101 1000100 10100100 1101010 10101 100100 101001 101001 111001 1111000 11010 10100100 11101 1100110 010111 1100101100 1111010 1010011 1101100 11010101 110101 11011000 011001 01110100 110011 1101100 110010 11011001 110101 11111111 111101 10111100 1000001 101001000 11010000 1111010 110101 01101000 11111101 0111010 1111011 11101011 111011101 011101 010101 11001011 110001 0111100 010111 110010101 110111 101000100 0111111 11111110 101110 1111110 110101 11110101 111100 11011101 011101 11011101 101110 11011101 110101 11010101 111101 111101101 110111 111111100 111110 1111011100 1100101 11110101 110111 1111110 110011 11111101 010001 1111110 111101 1111011 11011111 0100011 1101101 1101011 1111001 110110101 111111 110110111 101111 11111001 010101 11011101 111101 11110101 110101 11011001 110011 11011111 110011 111111111 111101 0101011 111111 11010110 110101 11011101 111101 1101001 110111 111111101 111110 11110110 1100111 11011100 110111 11011101 110111 11100111 010111 11110001 101101 11011101 100111 11110111 1010111 11110101 111101 11010100 11110 11111110 111101 11011110 110111 11010110 1110111 111101000 1101010 11111000 111101 110101100 11111111 0111010 011111 1110010 0111001 1101010 110101 11010010 110111 11001100 11111011 11101010 1110101 1101011 1110111 1110011 1011101 111001100 11111011 11101010 1110101 11110100 110101 1101011 110111 11001100 11111001 11101010 1110101 1111110 100101 11001010 110001 11011 110101 0101010 111100010 111001100 111100 1011010 110101 11000110 11111100 110011 110101 11101100 111101 1111000101 110101 10111010 1011001 1111100 111010101 11101000 11110100 1101000 11110111 11111110 110101 1101110 1010111 111110100 010101 101001100 111101 11101100 1110101 10101110 1011001 11111110 110001 1100010 110111 1101100 111011100 111011101 1010100 1111110 110110 11111110 11110001 1101100 1110100 1000010 001010 1101010 110101 1101010 111100100 1101010 111001 1011111 0101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 44
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 339
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, de, oh, vot, ish, it, pob are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, oh, or, und, for are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'de, denn, 'ash, dey at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase vent connects the lines.

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  • summary of Schnitzerl’s Philosopede;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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