This is an analysis of the poem Meine Alte Geige that begins with:
Einst, als es mir im Leben schlecht erging
Und alles schon versetzt war: Uhr und Ring,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXbXXXXX XbXXXXccXdXX bXadXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110110 111101111 11111011111 1011110001 1111111 111111110111 10101011111 111011110 1111111010 110101011111 111001110 111101011 1101110110 1111110111 11110111 1101110110 110101100 1111010110 111011101 110111011 101010101 1111111 110111100 11111111 111111110101 1111110101000 11010110111 110101101 1111101110 110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; und, mir are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, mir are repeated.
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