This is an analysis of the poem Lastenstraße that begins with:
Schwer hüllt des Sommertages schwüle Brunst
Die lange Straße ein in Staub und Dunst....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa XX bb XX XX Xa XX XX XXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100011 11110111 10110100 110111101 11111111001 111011111 1101110101 111011011 1101110010 1101110111 110111110110 11100111 101011100 11011111111 1101101100 1011001100 1101111100 11111101 111101011101 1011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; kein, f, ein are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words kein, ein are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hrt is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ein connects the lines.
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- summary of Lastenstraße;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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