This is an analysis of the poem Ein Epitaphium Oder Klag-Red Ob Der Leych D. Martini Luthers. that begins with:

Als man zelt fünffzehen hundert jar
Und sechs und viertzig, gleich als war ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXXXXXXXXXXaaXcXXXXXXXdXXXaaXXcXecXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXfXXaXaffXXXcXXXXXbXXXXXXeXXfXfeXXcXXcXffXXXeXXXXcfXfXXXdXcXccXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 120,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 11110111 11000110 1001111 1 11111111 11011101 11011001 11110110 111101010 1 101100100 1111110110 1111010111 10111001 1111011101 1 11011111 10110110 10101111 11111110 10010100 1 10111101 10100101 11111110 11011010 100110 1 11111101 1111111111 111111011 111101111011 11111001 1 10111111 1010111 11110110 11110011 1111011111 1 11110011100 1001111000 11011100 101000010 1011111 1 110111000 11100101 11111101 100111100 100110100 1 111111010 1001110 11100111 10100110 1110101 1 11111101 11101110 11111001 01011101 10110111 1 11101011 1101110 110110110 111011000 11111110 1 1011101 1111010110 11011010 111111 11110111 1 1101110 11011101 101011100 111010100 11010111 1 11111001 10100111 11110110 100011111 11111111 1 0101100 11110101 1111010 11011110 11011001 1 11110010 10110110 11001101 111011100 111001010 1 11011011 10011111 110110110 11000110 10111101 1 11010010 111000110 111000010 11011110 1101011 1 11110111 11110001 10011001 11110101 11011100 1 11101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3498
  • Average number of words per stanza: 611
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • 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; mit, ein, und are repeated.

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

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

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