This is an analysis of the poem Altes Kaminstück that begins with:
Outside, white snowflakes are blowing
Through the night: the storm is loud:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacdeaXXfbfegeghchcacacdiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 1010101 110101010 10111001 111011110 1010101 10101010 1000101 11101111 1010101 101110010 11000011 110010101 100111 10010101 110101 101001010 10001100 110001010 1010100 10101010 1110111 1001110 00111 100101010 1010001 01010110 1001001 11001101 10010111 10101010 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1026
- Average number of words per stanza: 170
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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