This is an analysis of the poem Ein Weib that begins with:
They loved each other with love so deep,
She was a tramp and he was a thief....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbaabbaabbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100111 110111101 111100101 1110111 011101011 110011101 111110111 11101011 1100101101 111111011 1101101 110111 1100101111 11011011001 1111011 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; at, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, at are repeated.
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- summary of Ein Weib;
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