This is an analysis of the poem Afrodites Dampe that begins with:

— O Venus, holdes, schönes Weib,
Ihr seid eine Teufelinne — ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX aXbXX cdXd XXXX XXXX XXXX XefbX XXcX XXXX XXgX eXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX ghXh XXXXd XXXX dXXX XXXX XhXh bXXX iXXX XXXX XjXXX XXXX XXXX iXXX XXXX XhXX XXXX XXXX aXXXX XXXX XXXX XhjX XXXX XXXX fXXc jXaX cXbX XhXX XXXb kXfX aXXXX XXbX lXkh jXXX gXmX XXXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011 111100 1 1011111 11010 1010101 1000 1110101 101 1111101 111 1011100 1000 101011 101 1110110 1110 111011 1010 1111010 111 10111010 101 1 111101 11 11110001 100 111110 10110 1001011 11 10111110 110 101011 1010 111111 101 110011111 101 1010111 101 101110 111 1010101 110 111110 1010 11111 1111 01111 1011 100111 0110 1101111 11 11101011 1110 1111110 1010 1 111101 111 11101111 111 1111110 110 1011101 110 1111 110 1110001 101 1101010 110 1110010 1000 1110010 1010 1011111 110 1110111 110 011101 111 10101110 100 11111111 11 1100111 1000 1111110 1100 1 111101 11110 1110111 1110 0111010 1010 0100101 1000 1111101 111 11101110 110 1111111 100 11011 100 1111100 1010 10010110 1010 1110110 1110 101111 111 10111011 11 1111110 101 110001 1110 1001111 111 1 1111010 111 10111010 101 11101110 1110 1111110 0100 10101110 111 11111 100 101111 110 11111111 110 1001110 1100 1110110 1100 111010 101 1110110 11 1111011 101 11001110 111 11011 11 10000010 11 11000010 1110 101110 1010 111111 10010 11111000 1010 1100101 110 1110111 1110 011111 111 1110111 100 1 111111 101 111011 101 1010110 110 1111011 101 1110101 11 1010111 1110 001001 001 111011 101 101111 1110 1110011 10010 1 11101110 1110 1111110 0100 1110110 11 1111101 101 1111000 110 11111 101 11111 110 1110111 1010 11101001 1111 1100101 1 01101011 101 11010 10001 1 101011 10001 1111110 111 1110111 1110 1111110 1010 1010101 1000 1100010 1110 10101110 1110 1111111 110 11011 100 0110110 1100 11100100 1010 1111111 1100 111101 1001 1010111 101 11011011 100 1111101 1001 110110 11 1101100 110 1 10001100 100 1010111 101 1100110 111 10111100 1 111101 111 111101 111 11111 0100 1100011 1000 10011101 110 1111010 1110 111111 11 10001010 10 11111 110 111111 0110 1011111 11 11101010 111 111110 1010 111110 1000 10001011 1010 1110111 110 10001010 1010 11111111 1110 1111110 111 1111000 11 1110011 1010 10111010 110 101011 1000 1011111 1000 11101010 1010 11111 1110 1011011 100 1011011 100 1111011 1010 10001011 1000 1 1010001 1000 1100010 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 81
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 332
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dem, og, der, de, er are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words hun, naar, afrodites at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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