This is an analysis of the poem The Dance Of The Seven Deadly Sins that begins with:

I.
Of Februar the fiftene nicht...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbcddcXecXfc X ffXcXe X ffXggXddXXXX X hhXffiddXXbi a jjbXXXffbXfb a XcbXXbkkbbbX X XXXXXXeeXbbX X ccgbXgccg X jjcXbcllXXXc c bbXeeXXXXbbmkkmddm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,1,6,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,9,1,12,1,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0100101 11010101 111001 111111011 11100101 101111 01101010 100101010 011010 11101101 111100001 110101 1 10101101 10010101 1111010 111001101 11011111 1101101 1 11111101 010110101 1001110 11010111 011111011 101110 11011101 11010001 0101010 101100110 1101011110 110010010 1 11100111 01110101 110101 10101100 10110001 1100101 0111011001 11010001 101110 10110011 11010001 011111 1 100110010 11011100 110101 1101011010 1100101100 0101010 110000110 110001010 011101 11000110 10110101 0011001 1 11011100 101101101 1101010 1001011000 100101000 101101 101111110 110111010 1101110 11110001 11011001 010111 1 110101010 110110010 110101 101101010 101111010 110101 11011001 11000101 1010101 01101101 110001001 1101001 1 11001101 11011101 1100011 11011101 11010110 110101 110100001 10110100 110101 1 10110100 010100110 011011 110010110 01110111 010111 110010101 010100011 011010 111101001 01101101 1100111 1 11010011 11010101 011111 010101101 10010011 11001101 1110101010 110101100 110001 010100111 111100101 011111 110001110 110110010 1111011 0101101011 10010101 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, of are repeated.

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

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