This is an analysis of the poem Los Der Armen that begins with:

Die Armen sind geboren wie andre aus Mutterleibern
und Geist und Körper und Sinn sind wie der anderen Menschen,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXaXXXXXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110011111000 11111111110010 1111111111010 11011011111011 1101001000011111 1111111110110 11011111110010100 1011010110011 11111111011011 11111101111110100 11110111100 11010101111001110 101101111111010 11111010111111110 110111111111111110 10111110111110110 0111101111011110 1111010111010011100 110111111011010 01110101111010 1011011010111111110 100011001111111 111111011111111 110111101111111111 10011100101010 1110110010000 01101100101 10010111110110 111111011101111110 1101111111111 11111101101111 1101100111110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1936
  • Average number of words per stanza: 347
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, wie, zur, sie, geld, die, das, er, zu, sich, vom, nicht, mit are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.

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  • summary of Los Der Armen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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