This is an analysis of the poem Menschenlos that begins with:
Verwunschnes Wolkenschloß, in dem wir treiben...
Wer weiß, ob wir nicht schon durch viele Himmel...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100001110 11011111110 11011110010 101110 11111000 1101111100 110111111100 1111010011110 111010000 1011001001000 11010 11011111110 1100111111010 11111111 11111110101 1100011100 0101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wir, und, die are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
The author used the same word wer at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Menschenlos;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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