This is an analysis of the poem Empfängnis that begins with:
Und wie er spähend gegen Mittag sah,
Erhob sich aus dem Korn, das goldgesponnen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXa XbXXbX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101 10111111000 1101111100 1101111111 1111111001 101111100 111111010 110110001 1101111110 111111111 1010011110 110110100 111111111 11110111011 111111011 111111110101 1111010101 11011100 111000111 1111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ngt is repeated).
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- summary of Empfängnis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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