This is an analysis of the poem Melancholia (Verträumnis) that begins with:
Jetzt stirbt der Wälder Gott - und wie der schrille
Ton einer Flöte, die des Meisters Hand...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaXXXX XbXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111 110111101 10111111 111110101 11011011110 10100010010 111011111 11000111 1101110101 10101101 1101011011 10111100011 100111110111 1110110111 1101110111 11111101 1011011101 1101001101 100110011 101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der, du are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cken is repeated).
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- summary of Melancholia (Verträumnis);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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