Poem Analysis of Gebet Des Weisen by Anton Wildgans for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Gebet Des Weisen that begins with:

Herr, wenn du gnädig bist, so schütz mich vor Gebreste,
Laß mir den scharfen Blick, die harte Faust,...

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Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXXXX abXbX XXaXX aXXa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,5,4,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 11011111110 111101111 111111110100 10111110110 1111001111 1011010111 1101010111 101101001101 110101111 1111011011 111101111 1100010001 11111101001 1101010111 111101111 111101111 111111111 111111101 1101001100 010011101 1111010111 0100111101 111110101
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
Average number of words per stanza: 46
Amount of lines: 23
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; und, die, der are repeated.
The author used the same word auch at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Gebet Des Weisen by Anton Wildgans: poem analysis

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