This is an analysis of the poem Auf Den Tod Einer Großen Hure that begins with:

Eine große Hure ist gestorben.
Sie besangen Dichter, sie bedachten Denker,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXabbXb cacX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100 1111001011110010 1111000 1111110111100 100100111 100001010 1101101 111001100 110111110111 11110010 111111010 11111111100 1110111111 110010011 11111 1110011101 110010111 1110011111111 11101111110 10110111 10111110 1111100 110111100 1111100 111110001 10001110 11010111 11101111 111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; sie is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rmer is repeated).

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  • history of its creation;
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