This is an analysis of the poem The Sprig Of Moss that begins with:
There lived in Munich a poor, weakly youth,
But for the exact date, I cannot vouch for the truth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd eeff ghcc ddXX iiff ccee cccc hgjj kkdd llgg ghmm bbcc hgen nndd enneXeeii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001101 1100111101101 10100010011010 1111010011000 1110110101101 101010110001001111 1110110100010 111101011010 01111111011 0100100101001001 11010110010111 111101101111 11111011101 011010100101 10001110010101 1100100101011011 11111011101 1111101000010111 10100011010101 1001111101111 111001111101 11101010101011 11010011110101 11101111101101 010011000111 1010010100110001 111010011011 01101010111 1100101110110001 1100101011101 110101101110001 1110100001010101 11110100101011 101010011010011 101110011011 10011011101 111101010101 10110100101101 1100110110001 11110110101111 0111101000100101 10101100111101 111010010110101 100111001011 100111000010101 110011001101011 101101111101 1011101110101 111010101101010 1110101100010 11010110011010011 1011110100 111011100111 10101000101101 111000100110101011 10110100100 101101101010100 0110101000100100 01101011011111001 110101010001 11110111011001 0100110000100000100 11110100100100 111110110101101 1111011011 01101110110011 11111110010 10111000111010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, to, he, of, ye, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, then are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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