This is an analysis of the poem Herbstfrühling that begins with:
Ist das nicht wundersam... daß mich der purpurblonden
Herbstlichen Glut so an dein Haar gewmahnt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXaaX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,10,13,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001111000 1001111110 111110010 01011101 11111111000 111010100 11010101100 1111011101 10110111 1111111 110101110 11101111101 101101101 1111011000 111111101 1100001101 11110100110 1101111100 111110111110 111111001010 1101111100100 1111100100 11110111010 11111110 101101111 0101011100 111111011 1111010111 1110111100 1111011010 111111111100 10011110 111100101 11110111 1111101110 110101110 110111000 01010111110 11010110010 11110111110 10101111110 110111111 1101101100 1110011101 111110010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 45
- 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; die, dann are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, dann, und are repeated.
The author used the same word die at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Herbstfrühling;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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