This is an analysis of the poem Lied Der Strassen that begins with:

Werke sind wir eurer Hochgedanken,
Mühsam werden wir durch eure Hände —...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXa bXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101000 1101111 101110111 111111110 1010111110 1010011000 111011110 1110101110 101111010 100011000 101011010 1111110 110100110 1110101010 1110011100 1011111100 1110110 101011010 1010011000 10101111 1000101000 1100001 101110 11111010 11111110 11111100 111101110 100111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; wir, und, die are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ste is repeated).

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