This is an analysis of the poem Warnung Im Traume that begins with:

In üppig lauter Residenz
Verschwelgt mit reicher Habe...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XbXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX dXdX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX cXcX XXXX XXeX dXXX XXXX Xbeb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110100 10111101 1110100 110111 1101110 11110100 11111110 1111110 1111100111 111010 1111111 1001110 110011 111111100 11010011 1101100 1011111100 1101100 10011100 1101110 111111111 110110 11110110 11101 1111111100 1100100 11111001 0101110 11010001 1001100 1111101 111000 11110101 11001 111101 110100 11011000 111111 1101011 11011110 1111101 111000 1101101 1111010 11110110 1111110 1111010 11110110 00110111 111101110 0111111 11111100 1101111 011111100 01110101 1100100 1111010100 111101010 11110111 1101000 1101111101 111100 11101101 11001 110111111 1101010 1111111 011111010 1101110 111110 11111101 110010 1111111 101110 1011111 1011000 1111111 111100010 1011110 11110 1111111100 1101000 1111000100 1011100 11011101 1011100 1111100 1100100 1111011 110010 1110100 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er, und are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, er are repeated.

    The author used the same word sie at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Warnung Im Traume;
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