This is an analysis of the poem Der Mann Im Keller that begins with:
How cool and fair this cellar where
My throne a dusky cask is;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbbcddc eeceecXcfc XaXaggcffc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 1101010 01111101 1101110 0101 0101 11000110 1111 1101 1101010 0111 0101 0111010 1111 01001 1111110 010011001 0111010 11011101 0101010 11110111 0111111 11110101 1101011 1101 0100 1001010 1111 1101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; drinking, i, more are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word drinking at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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