This is an analysis of the poem How Rumplestilz Held Out In Vain For A Bonus that begins with:

In Germany there lived an earl
Who had a charming niece:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdddeX fefeeeeegghh ididhbhbXegg jejeahahffff bXbXkhkXlXff fmfmhhhhbblX kkaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01001111 110101 11010101 010101 110111001 010101 10110101 110101 110101011 110111111 011001010 110111110 11010101 110101 11010101 010101 11010101 110101 11010101 110101 110111010 110100010 111101010 111101001 11110101 110111 11010111 010101 11000101 010001 11010101 110101 010111010 010101010 110101010 111101010 11011101 110001 11110101 110001 11000101 101111 11010001 110101 110101010 110101010 111101010 110100010 01011101 011101 01011101 011101 11010101 110101 11110101 0111110 110100010 010101010 011001010 111111110 11011101 110001 11100101 010111 10111101 110101 11111111 111101 1110010100 1011111100 010101010 111001011 01001111 11010101 110101010 110000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • 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; to, she, had, his, he are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word but 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 you is repeated).

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