This is an analysis of the poem Dirnen that begins with:
Ihr seid es nicht, die ihr zu Hungerlöhnen
Euch unsern Brüdern gebt und unsern Söhnen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXaXXa XXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111100 110111101 1110011 11111101 110011101 11110101111 111111011110 1110100110 1101111101 11101100 1101111011 111101101 1011101000 1110101000 1101110001 1110101010 111111011111000 1111001101 10110101100 10111011010 10011011 111011111001 110100111 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; ihr, die, und are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, und are repeated.
The author used the same word vielleicht 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 hnen, ttern, stet, rde are repeated).
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- summary of Dirnen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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