This is an analysis of the poem A Jewish Cemetery In Germany that begins with:

On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery,
a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by shrubs,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbXacXaaddXecabe X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010111011010 01010100101011011 0101010100101 10101000011 1011101 10010011011101 110 1111111000101 1110 101011010110 101010011001101 111111010101001 1110101101101 0010 0101000100100110 1101011010010 110010110101 0010010001010 010110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 451
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines name is repeated).

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