This is an analysis of the poem Max And Moritz Fishing that begins with:

Eben geht mit einem Teller
Witwe Bolte in den Keller, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXXXXX bbccddeeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111010 110110 11111110 11011 11111001 101010 1000111 111111 111111100 110100 101101 1111101 1110101 0010101 1110101 1010101 0011101 1010111 1111111 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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