Poem Analysis of Tränen Des Vaterlandes by Andreas Gryphius for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Tränen Des Vaterlandes that begins with:

Wir sind doch nunmehr ganz, ja mehr denn ganz verheeret!
Der frecher Völker Schar, die rasende Posaun, ...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX aXX a baab bbbb aab ccb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111011111100 1101111010 1111111010 1101111101000 111011111000 110111110110 11011111111 110111111110 1011111110101 10111111011 1101101101000 11111111111 110111111100 1111011101000 100101 1111110111010 0101110101 01001110111 0101100111101010 010101110111 0111011101 1011110111 110111011111 111101111111 101101110101 110101110101 110011011111 1111111101101 11010110101001
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 29
Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
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; die, und, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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