This is an analysis of the poem Legende that begins with:
Wann war es doch? Der Wald, das Haus, der Stall.
der Auslaufbrunnen, der plätscherte in der Nacht....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXX XXXbXXX cbdbdXBX eXXXXbX cXcXeXb XXXXXbX XXeXXXX XXbbXXf XafXbXXXXB XXXXeXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,7,7,7,7,7,10,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111 1100011011 11111110 11100010110 1111101111 10110111010 1101101111110 11110110101010 111111110100 1111011000 1101011011 11001111111 11110100110 111010110001000 11110100 1111 10111110 1011111 11010110 11110101 11111 1101100 111101110101 11111010111 1110101101010 1110100111101 10010011010101 11111111 1011011 1111110111101 1110111100 1110010010111 1101011110111 1111101001 100110010 11111 100111 111011011 1111001101 111100111 111010101 11110111101 1001110001 111101010 10010111001 110111111 111011110 1111110110 1011111 10101100 11001011000 100100110110 11011111111 10011101 101001011101 1110010110 111110111 110011101111 111101110111 1011111 1111101111 111 1111001110 111111 11010101 1111 11111 10 0110010100 011001101 111101101 011111110 110100100 11110 11011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; der, und, die, sturm are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, gottes, die are repeated.
The author used the same word und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Legende;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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