This is an analysis of the poem Komm, Die Dämm´rung Sinkt Hernieder... that begins with:
Komm, die Dämm'rung sinkt hernieder,
Graulich flackert's im Kamin —...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXXaXXXXX XXbXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100 1010110 10111010 11111 1101100 101101 10100010 1111001 1110100 1110110 111010 11111 1111100 111111 11111010 1111111 11111100 1111001 11110100 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die is repeated.
The author used the same word komm at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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