This is an analysis of the poem Mondestrunken that begins with:
Den Wein, den man mit Augen trinkt,
Gießt Nachts der Mond in Wogen nieder,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAXX XXXA XXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111101 111101010 111010 110100 11011 10011110 1111111101 111101010 11011101 10111101 100101001 111101110 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den is repeated.
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- summary of Mondestrunken;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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