This is an analysis of the poem Das Riesenspielzeug that begins with:
Burg Nideck ist im Elsaß der Sage wohlbekannt,
die Höhe, wo vorzeiten die Burg der Riesen stand;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb XbXc aaad XXXb XXXX aXXX cXXX cXXd XXXc XXXX XaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011100 111100111101 11111110011111 010111001011111 1111000110110 1011010110111 1110110101110 100110011011 1111010101011111 101010111101 1111111101 10010101111 1111011111100 101111010110101 111110101100 110011111111 11010111111111111 1111101010111 1101111111111 1100111111100 11111101111101 1110110110110 110101011010 1100011111101 1111111111 01111110001110 1100010010110 011110110111 11110111111001 1101000111110 1111111110100 11111011111101 111110111111 1101000111101 1011000111101 1101110111011 11111010110 11111011011 111111011010 1101110111110 110111011110 111110111101 11111110011111 110111001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, und, der, sie, vater are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word es is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Das Riesenspielzeug;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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