This is an analysis of the poem Das Große Händefalten that begins with:
Gewaltiger, dem alle sich befehlen
Und der auch unsrer Feinde Beten wägt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX Xbcb XXXX XXXd XXXd XXXX XXXd XXXX XdcX XXXX XXXX XbXd aXaX XdXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000111100 111101101 1100110010 101101011 1111110010 1100110101 11010101110 111111011 01111000110 11111001 1100110010 111111111 11111101010 1000111110 1101010100 1110011000 01111001100 1101011000 1101111100 110101001 110111100 10110101 1101110110 11100101 1111001010 110110110 11110111000 1111111100 11011100100 11111111 111111100 101101001 11111101000 11111111 111010010 110110100 111011100 1101110011 11111101110 111111100 1110110010 110110100 110111100 11111110 10110101010 10110110111 11111100 1110110 11110111010 111110101 111111100 1111010111 11011110010 1111101 1101111110 1101011100 1111110111010 111010011 11010101100 111100111 110101010 1000111110 110110100 1110011000
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; die, ein, wir, und, das, macht, der are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wir, musik are repeated.
The author used the same word wir at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase musik connects the lines.
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