This is an analysis of the poem Über Den Dächern that begins with:
Aus meinem Fenster im alten Haus
Blick' ich auf braune Dächer hinaus....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXBXXX CCXXXX XXbXXX AXBXXX CCXXXX XXXXXX XcXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101 1111110 1111111 11110100 110111 111111101 1111000101 111100111 11111100 1101101111 11110011 11010110 1111110 110111100 111110101 11110101 01111110 1111101110 110101101 1111110 1111111 11110100 110111 111111101 1111000101 111100111 111111 110101111 110111101 1101101101 11110111 11010101 1101111 11011101 11011111 111111 1111101 01011101 111110 1111111 1111101 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, der, die are repeated.
The author used the same word nur at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Über Den Dächern;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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