This is an analysis of the poem Einem Schauspieler that begins with:
Eh' wir das Leben kennen, kennen wir euch,
Des Lebens Former, Deuter und Spieler....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101011 1101010110 111111111 111110110 1010111110100 111111100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; und is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
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- summary of Einem Schauspieler;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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