Poem Analysis of Ein Pfingstgedicht by Anton Wildgans for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Ein Pfingstgedicht that begins with:

Immer noch brüteten ihre Gemüter
Ober dem ungeheueren Tag,...

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Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXbX XXcX bXXX XXbX cXXX XXXX XXXd XXXX XXXX XXXd XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10110110 10110001 11101101 10101101 1111100010010 10111011 1011110110110 1111100 1011000 10000100 111101001010 11101100 101001111010 101011011 11001000 111010011 11011000 101001010 1011011010 1011110111 10100110110 1101001 11111011110 10101111 110011011 1110110 111111111 1011101 10110110110 1011010 11101100 111001011 101101110 10111011 1110011 10101001111 1111100101 11001100 11111011010 1010001000 111110111 111011110 11111011011 100011001 11111011010 101001000 10111010010 11001100
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 49
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; die, sie, und, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sollten is repeated.
The author used the same word und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Ein Pfingstgedicht by Anton Wildgans: poem analysis

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