This is an analysis of Hans Breitmann’s Barty by Charles Godfrey Leland.

HANS BREITMANN gife a barty;
Dey had biano-blayin',…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXabX XcXcdcXc XeXebeXe XdXdXbbX XXeXXXXX XacabXeX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 1101010 111010 110111101001 0111001 111111010 011101 11110101 111101 1101010 111111 1101110101 1110111 01010001 11011101 110011101 110101 1101010 1110111 11011101 011101 1100110100 0101001 11111010 10100111 1101010 111111 10101000100 011001 11111101 0101101 11110001 1111100100 1101010 111111 1111001001 1100111101 111101001 1111101 101001011111 1010111 1101010 111101 110100101 1110101 11010001 0100101 110101110101 1000100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 48

Repeated words/phrases

de, she, und

Anaphora

i, und, vhere