This is an analysis of the poem Prolog Zu Einer Trauerfeier Für Weiland Kaiser Franz Josef I. that begins with:
Da dieser Eine, unser Kaiser, starb,
Inmitten dieser bittern Sterbenszeit,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX aXXXXbXaXX XXbXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101 1001010100 111101100 1011010101 11111100 1110010100 11111110 110111111 100111010 1101010101 111101101 1011110111 11010101 110110100 11111101 11101001 1101010110 1111111011 1011011 110110111 1000100110 11111010110 1101011100 1111011110 111111111 1110010101 1111111 110101100 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, ihm are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, ihm are repeated.
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