This is an analysis of the poem Dienstbotenurlaub that begins with:
Es gibt ihr niemand ein herbes Wort,
Die Arbeit ist auch nicht zu schwer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX XXXbba XXXXcX XdXXXXdX XXXXXc XXXXaX XeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,8,6,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101 11011111 11111111111 1111111001 111011011 11101010 1101010 01101101110 11011111 111011011 11111011111 11010111 11110 1101101110 1110010100 11111001 1101000 11111010011011 11010011 11011110 111101010 1110111110 1101101010 11111110101110 111111111 11011111 1100100 10110100 101001100 110110000 101101 1111011100 110101 111101101 11101001 11110100101 11011 111100100 01011001 010101000 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; ist, die, in, und are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, heut are repeated.
The author used the same word und 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 brav connects the lines.
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- summary of Dienstbotenurlaub;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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