This is an analysis of the poem Walter Von Der Vogel Weid that begins with:

Vogelweid the Minnesinger,
When he left this world of ours,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba acXc aXaX dbdb ceae afXf XeXe addX cdXX cfXf ceXb aafa XddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001000 1110101 10100010 10101010 11101010 1010001 11101110 1010101 1010110010 1110101 11101010 11111110 10101010 10100010 10101010 10100010 1111010110 0110101 11101010 1010001 10111010 1010101 10101011 1010101 10110110 1010011 10101010 1011101 11111010 11111001 10111010 1010100 11101010 10100101 001011000 11101000 1011010110 0011111 10101110 1000101 10101010 10010101 10101000 10100010 1111000010 10101001 10101011 1010101 10101010 1110101 10101010 1010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; day, in, on, of, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.

    The author used the same words on, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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