This is an analysis of the poem Schneider Strauss that begins with:
I vas all der country hunting for a man I vants to meet,
I vas bursting me to schlog him on der cop.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc dXdaeceX dXdXacXac XfcXfgXgc XdXeXXc hghgbcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,9,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110101011101 11101011111 01111111111111111 11101110111 1110010100011110101 11110011111 11101111111111101 1111111111101 1111111110101101111 1110101110101 10111111111110 11101010101 110011111111101 11111110101 1110010101011111 1011011111010 1111101011101111 101011111000 111111101110101 10111011101111 111100100111111 101000101111 1111111111101 101 111111011101 10101111111101000 1110111111111 01001110111 1111 11111110111 11100110101111 11101010101 111010101010101 01101011101 111001111111110 111111100111 1110101011010110 11110101111111 01101111111 111011101111111 11111111101 111110101110111 10101111111 11101101111111 01101111111 111110101011111 01111111101 111011011111111 1010001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, him, vas, mit, he, der, mine, und, me, dey, gone are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, und, dat are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word strauss at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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- summary of Schneider Strauss;
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