This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend Studying German that begins with:
VILL'ST dou learn die Deutsche Sprache?
Denn set it on your card, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcb XbcXXdad XefegXXX XXXacXXh XiXidXgX XbgXXhXX XfafXXXc XaXaaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 111111 110111 1101110 1010111 11101110 1111101 1101111 111101 111011 1110011 0100110 1110100 11111110 1110101 0101010 001111 111011 1111001 01010101 110101 1111110100 111101 11010101 010101 111011 101101 11001111 010101 11110101 10011 11011001 101001 111011 011011 110011101 010101 10111110 111101 110010100 0010100 111011 010111 11101110 1110101 11111000 110101 01111100 011100 111011 0010011 1111010 110101 0100110 111101 10101110 1110101 1011010 110101 10110010 0011101 1011110 111111101 11010111 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; de is repeated.
The author used the same word will'st at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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