This is an analysis of the poem Dienstboten that begins with:
Sie sind immer nur da, um zu dienen,
Niemand fragt sie nach ihrem Begehr....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXXX bXbX XXXXX XaXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111110 10111111010 1111110011110 101111011 11110111111010 10111111101 11011101 10110111 100111011 11111111101 110111111101 10101111101 111111111110 1011111 11111100 01010001 1111 11001101 110111110110 1101111011 110111000 1001001010 1101101 1111001010 1011101 1011010 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; zu, sie, f, r, die, sind are repeated.
The author used the same word sie at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te is repeated).
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- summary of Dienstboten;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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