This is an analysis of the poem Giovedi Grasso that begins with:
Und als der Tag langsam herangeblasst
Durch düstern Himmels graue Nebelmassen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXX XXb XXXa abbX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101000 111011000 1101101010 1101100110 110111010 1111001100010 10010111100 101101111 1010100100 111111110 1101111 11001111 1111111111 1110111111010 11001011110 11111111110 10111011010 11100011 101111111001 111011110 1110111010 1001011110 101111011 110111110011 11110100111 1111010110 1011011001 110111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; und, ein are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
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