This is an analysis of the poem Robert Und Der Invalide that begins with:

Siehst unser Hüttlein du im Abend schimmern? -
Es lacht hinaus ins öde Heideland,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXbXXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXX X XXXaXXXcXcXaXXXXXXXXdXbXXXXX d XXXXXXXXXXdadXXXXXdXXXXXXcXabX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,1,28,1,30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011010 11101110100 1101111110 1111011100 11010111010 111110011 1101011010 111111100 10111011000 1101111010 101111010 1110111010 101111110 1100110100 1101110101 11110101010 111010100 111111111 11101101 11001001100 11111110100 1110110101 111110101 1111110101 111111101 1111111110 10110110000 10011111110 111111110 1111100110 111111110 110111100 1110101000 1111100100 1111011100 11111110 11111110 110101011 111111010100 11011100100 11111011 1011011111 1100 1101001100 1111101110 1111111100 1101010111 1111100100 11001001 110011111 1101001111 10101010 101010001 110011110 01001011010 1111111000 0110100110 10111110000 110111101 11110100 110111101 1111111100 11011101000 111101111 111111100111 111100111 1010101110 11101111101 111101000 11011111 1110011110 10 111011101 110111011 111101111110 101111111 11011101110 110111 1011111010 1111111011 1011001000 0011111010 110111101 11111111110 111111011001 111111011100 11110111010 1101001101 1111011101 1011001110 11111111 110101111 1100011000 11111111 11111111110111 0111110100010 111110111101 11110101 1101010111 11001011010 11111111 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 858
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 102
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; die, und are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wenn, zum, da are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ren is repeated).

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