This is an analysis of the poem Nuremberg that begins with:
In the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands
Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba cded cc XefX cc aa bgb gg bhb hch bb cc aa hXh caa cac ee Xee bcb hh dcd hh if acc iai jj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,2,4,2,2,3,2,3,3,2,2,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,2,3,2,2,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000101011111 10110010100010 1 11101110111011 1 100111010101110 1 10000101010100111 1110011010101001 11111010100111 1 1110100101011100 1 0011001010101101 101010101110001 101010101010101 1010010101010001 101110111010101 10101010100010 1 101010111110101 101010101010011 001010101010101 10101010101011 1 001010101010101 10101010101010 1 1111101000101001 111011100010001 101010101010101 111001101010101 1000000101011111 110110101010101 101010101011111 11111010111110 1 111111101011 101 101010001010101 001110101100101 101010110101010 1 101010101110101 101010101000101 101110101010010 1 001011100011001 1110101010000101 10001110011011 1 101011110010101 101000101010101 101110101010101 10111111001111 1 111010101010111 101010100010011 100010101011101 111011101010100 1110111011101 01 111011101111101 1110001000010101 111111111010 101 100001001010100001 001000100110001
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, their, and, in, age, he, thy are repeated.
The author used the same word in 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 hand is repeated).
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