This is an analysis of the poem Grabschrift Marianae Gryphiae, that begins with:
Geboren in der Flucht, umringt mit Schwert und Brand,
Schier in dem Rauch erstickt, der Mutter herbes Pfand, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXX X bbccddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001110111111 1001110110101 110111111100 111011100100 11111011100 1111011111100 111111111100 1110111111100 1011101010 1101100101 11010111101 1101110001 1111010101 1101111101 1101011111 1111010111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ich, i are repeated.
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