This is an analysis of the poem The German Legion that begins with:
In the cot beside the water,
In the white cot by the water,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaAb aaab aaaC Cccd DDdb eEEd aaab ffgX fgfb ehihiheijjkkjX fgfl aaal aaab XXXe DDdX eEEdXAAai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,14,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101010 00111010 01110110 1110101 11101010 10101010 10101010 001101 11101110 00101110 10111010 10101001 10101001 1010101 1010101 1110011 10101010 101101110 1101010 1111101 11101110 10101110 10111010 1110111 11101010 11111110 11111110 1110101 10111010 11101010 11100111 1010101 11101010 11101011 11111010 1110011 1111110100 0101111111 1111011110 1111011111 1001111111 1110110111 0010000100 1101111111 1101110001 1111111101 0101110100 1111001101 1101010011 1111010101 11101010 11110011 11111010 1010101 11101110 11111110 11111110 1111101 10111010 00101110 00111110 1011101 0101000 00110010 10101000 1110100 10101010 101101110 10101010 0010101 11101110 10101110 10111010 1110011 00101010 01110110 10111010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; cot, water, white, her, wound, singing, round, they, grief, with, leaf, and, that, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, there, singing, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines water, her, leaf are repeated).
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