This is an analysis of the poem Liebesnacht that begins with:
Das war die Nacht, die aller Nächte Preis -
Erinnerst du dich noch an unser Zimmer?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXaXXX XXbXbXXX cXXXcXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX dXdXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111011 10001111010 1111111 111101000 1101011101 11011001100 111101010 101101100 1101110010 010111101 010101101 100100111 1101010101 110101111 111111011010 10111111010 111111111 111110110 111101101 10011110 111111111 11100111 11110101000 1010111100 111110101 1110110010 111101110 11011111 11111011 101110101 1111110101010 10110111010 111101100 100011100 111110010 101111110100 11011110 110110100 11111010 100111011 1111011001 1111101001 1101011001 111010111 110110010 110101 11111111010 011101000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; die, und, der, da are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, und are repeated.
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