This is an analysis of the poem Einem, Dem Ich Nichts Verschweige that begins with:
Ich habe manches bittre Lied gesagt,
Doch Bittersteg von allen Bitternissen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11101110 11001101000 11010110110 1111011101 111111110110 1111110111100 111111100100 1101111110 110111111010 11001111 11010110010 1100111101110 1100110001 1110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; hat, d, e, und are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word d is repeated.
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