This is an analysis of the poem Reading The Brothers Grimm To Jenny that begins with:

Jenny, your mind commands
kingdoms of black and white:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbbcdceafXXf Xgadgdcbc aXeXeXaaa ahbXhaXfabfhdf Xe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,9,9,14,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101 100111 11001111 011111 110101 110101 111001 111111 101111 110111 10101 100101 1101001 0010011 101111 1101010 100101 010100 1111010 110101 110111 110101 111101 111111 011101 110101 110101 010101 100101 110101 101111 101011 111101 110101 0101001 0100111 01001001 111111 010101 111111 010110 110101 110101 110111 010101 011010 010110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; your is repeated.

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

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