This is an analysis of the poem Der Arme Jude that begins with:

Armer Jude, der du wandeln
Mußt von Dorf zu Dorf hausierend,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXb abXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaaX bbXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010 11111100 1111010 1101110 111111 1011101 111011111 1011111 111111 110111 100111 110011 10100100 111000 11111100 10101010 1101100 0100110 1011110 11001100 11111100 1110100 111111 1111010 1010101 1011111 1011100 1010110 1111000 111111 111111 11111110 11110110 1011110 1110111100 1101100 110011 111111 11011 101011 111100 1110101 111111 111111 11101100 1011111110 10101100 11101110 11111010 11100110 11001100 10111110 111111 11111010 1111010 1110111 1011111 111100 101111 1111101 10111010 1111010 1101110 10111010 10111110 11101010 111010 11100100 1011010 11011 1010110 10111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, dich, dem, er are repeated.

    The author used the same word zieht 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 ndlein is repeated).

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