This is an analysis of the poem Lied Des Schmarotzers that begins with:
Bin arm geboren! Was kann ich dafür?
Und habe eines Genießers Nerven!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXX XXXXXbbX XXXacXXX bdXdXXXX XacaXaXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001111 11101010 111101101 11110110100 1111111100 111011100 1011111000 11000111100 111101101 1111011001 1111100001 11110010110 11111011100 1100011 111101111 1101010010 110101111 11001011110 1111011110 111101111011 1111011010 1110110 1111100 11111101110100 111111001 111101010 111111 10111110 101000110 111111011 11111100 1110011110 111111110 11011001 1111110 101111111 1100111 110101111 1111101101 1111101111111 11111110100 111101101 1011011000 11101110 111010110 111111100 11100110 111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ich, und, den, als, die are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mit, als 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 Lied Des Schmarotzers;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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