This is an analysis of the poem The Funeral Of The German Emperor that begins with:
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead.
Who oft great armies to battle hath led;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaa ddff bbgg hhgg iicj ggcc Xegg hhaa kkddaaiiccXXaaaakkdhaakk ddee gggg llaa jjffXbbgggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,24,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010011010010101 1111001011 110101010011 0111010001 010010011101 0101101000101 101110101101 001010111011 1110100110101101 11101001011101 100101110101 1001010010010001 100101111011 1010100100101 001010100100011101 01101110001001 010010101000010101101010 11010010100101 100101010011 001001101110101 1101001001001110101010 101001001011010 1010010010101 010001001011111 11101011011101110 10111101110 101001011001 10010001010111001001 101011101001 10111011001 1011101001001 10111011010001 1100110100101001010 01000101011101 01010101110010001 1001001101001101101 110010100100111010 1100101100010100 1010101010100010 10100101110010 11010101010101001 1010001010110011 11011101100011010011 10100111011010101 1101010110011001 11010110111110101 101101111011010011 101011001111101 0010000101000100010011 010101010010001 1101101101001 0111011010001 10001010100101 101110101001 1100100010011 101001110011011 1010010100110111 01001010010110101 11100011100100101 0011111011010 110010011101 10010101010100101 1010100010001101 100100110101011 01100011101001011 110101010110101 101001000010010001 01100101101111 101001001110101 110101011100101 111101001001 010001111001 1101001011101001 10100010100010101 11110100110100101 10011111010000111 1100101100101010 0100011000110011 11010110001101 1010100111 11001001001010111 001010101111 111101100100101 111000111000110101 01000010101111 0100010110011001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (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; to, of, in, and, prince, crape, berlin, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words then, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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