Poem Analysis of Gegenüber by Anton Wildgans for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Gegenüber that begins with:

Du junge Frau, ich seh´ dich alle Morgen,
Wie du dein Haar am offnen Fenster kämmst,...

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Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXX XbbX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 011111110 1011110101 11101011 111111110 111011110 11111001 1011101101 111010110 1111111100 1110111 1101111111 110111111010 111011011 111110101 10101011 1111011101 101111111 110111101 1111111 101111111
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
Average number of words per stanza: 33
Amount of lines: 20
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; r, und, der are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mmst is repeated).

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Gegenüber by Anton Wildgans: poem analysis

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