This is an analysis of the poem Wein Geist that begins with:

I STOOMPLED oud ov a dafern,
Breauscht mit a gallon of wein, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa aXXbXb XXXX bbXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXXXX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011010 111101001 111001010 1010100 1101011 1100101 1110011011 11001011 10111011 1011101 111011010 11011001 11111111010 1101101 101011110 11010100 1111110 1101111 1111111000 1111001 1111110100 1110101 11011010 11101101 111110010 011101 1110011001 1110101 111001100 00101111 1101010 11111101 11001110 1101101 010110101 11001101 111101010 0110110 11100011110 1011011 10001010 11001101 11101010 11001100 011111 110111 1111111110 1100101 1011101 111010 11001110 10111110 101011100 1111011 00101010 1100111 11100010 1011101 01001100 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, i, her, ', de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is 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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  • summary of Wein Geist;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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