This is an analysis of the poem Elsa Wertman that begins with:

I was a peasant girl from Germany,
Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabccdXecXecdXbXcdafdcFF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010100 11101011 10111111101 1010111101 1100010111 1001111111 1101111001 101110 1111110101 111111100101 1110111101 11111011 110101010 1110001001 11100111110 10001001000 111110111101101 10110110101 11010010110111110 1010001001 1110 111001 111 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 923
  • Average number of words per stanza: 184
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, cried, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that's are repeated.

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

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