This is an analysis of the poem Duino Elegies: The First Elegy that begins with:
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefdghgiajffdgfaekakal mllXglnjddlopfgnejgaqrb jgldafnpm drbamnXigabkolrf eeleafqaghkhncflnm eaffaXrgXgdered Xg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,23,9,16,18,15,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111101010 1101100100100 1101011110 00010010010 11001010010010 1111010001111 010010001001011 1101001010 11111110111 010101110 10111111 110110 110010100101111 10011110101001 10101111011 10110110110111 110011111010 110101101 101010111010 11010111110 1010001100110 1010100100100110 1111110110 10000010110101 0100101011101 1011001011001 101101001101 011011100101 11110111010 00011010110 1011111100 011110111010 101000100010 00010111101 010011111 1011011010101 1101011101001 11101001001001 111111000101 100111111110 111010110101 0111001010 0101110110011 111100111010 0101110010110 10001101010101100 010101 1110010100100 1101010101011 011100010010 10110111011110 1001000111011 001111001101 00010110001 10100101110 100101011101 110011 101010111101 1100100101100 110111110100 100101011011 1100111101 0101100110 001001101010 1101101011 011101111 0101100101110 01111001011100 10100010010010 111101010001 00100100101 11100101100 1001010 01001001001110 011011111010010 1001101101110 1101001010110 0011101000101 010011111100101 0100101 110010001010110 1010111010100 110011101011 1100100111100010 100100110101 001010110010 10111100100010 011001010101 00101011100100 1110101110110 01001 0010100101110 1011010101 0011011101 0010111111 01110011110 11001010001 1101010 0010111010010 0010010110 010110110 01010110111 1111011001010 1010011011 1010001011010 110111 0101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 702
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, of, need are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to, strange, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines need is repeated).
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