This is an analysis of the poem Du Sahst Noch Nie... that begins with:
Du sahst noch nie die Armut Bündel schnüren,
wenn sie die Not aus ihrem Heim vertrieb -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX abXb XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011111011 111111110110 0111101 11101111 0111111010 0101110111 0110110010 110011010 01011110101 110111101 110111001 1111110101 011111100100 1111011101 11011111010 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die is repeated.
The author used the same word du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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