This is an analysis of the poem Verlorene Stunden that begins with:
Da kam der Abend wieder über Dächer
Wie eine Woge blau und tief heran....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XaXXa XXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011 11111110 11110011 110101000 1111010100 111110010 111010100 11010111010 110011000 11110101 11010101000 1101110 11111011100 10110001010 1100110111 11111111100 1101111101 1101011111010 1101111010 110111111 1111101000 111010110 1111111110 11110101100 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, cher, den, die are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, und are repeated.
The author used the same word und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cher is repeated).
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- summary of Verlorene Stunden;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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