This is an analysis of the poem An Imperial Rescript that begins with:
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed,
To ease the strong of their burden, to help the weak in their need,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eefX XXdd ffee ffXX aadX ffXX ggfX aXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1000100100101001 010101100101011 110100101101111 10110101010100101 0101101000110111 1011110100111 110100101101001 110100111101001 10111101100100111 011110100111101 0010101101111001 11101110001010110 01011010011111 101110010101111110 01110011011101 1010011101110101 1111010111101 110110101101 101001100100100101 10111001010101001 10001010101110101 1100111011101011 011100101111001 11001000111111110 1110100101110101 1010011110100101 1101001101101 111011010111010110 11001010010101 1001111101111101 0111011011011100 1011011011011010 111101010101001 11100101011100101 1111111001011011 1011011010110110100 100010010010101 011110001101101110 010010100100101 01101001011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, and, from, some, i, der, schmitt, day, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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