This is an analysis of the poem Not Too Bad that begins with:
De cottage vas close py der garden gate,
It vas not mighdty hardt to find it,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabcb dXbXXXeb cefebgXg cXXXbXef XXXfXhbh ebdbeXaX gXgebXXX dieiXXcX haXaXgag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111101 011101010 0100111101 101011100 11111111101 10111101 11001111001 1110101 1111111101 110011001 1110101001 111011000 11011101110 101011001 11001111111 111100111 11011111011 10100101 1110111111 11110111 11100111111 111001011 111011111 11110111 111010011111 110011110 11101110111 11111101 10101010110 11110111 11101010101 11101111 11111111111 1111111 1110011110101 1111001111 1111111100 11100111111 111110111 11011110 11111111111 101100011 10110100101 10100101 11111011011 11111101 0110111110111 11101101 11111111101 10111111 111110011101 101011011 1110111011111 111111110 11111111101 1110111110 1111101111 111011110 1111101101 11101111010 011001111001 101011010 11110101111 11101010 111101101 01101111 1111110111 11110101 110111111010 11101111 111001111111 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, der, und, i, her, vas, mine are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, und, i are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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