This is an analysis of the poem Morgen Im Schloß that begins with:

Und draußen war ein grüner Sommermorgen.
Die greise Gräfin mit dem Silberscheitel,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXaXXX XXXXbCX bXcaXXXXXX cCXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,7,10,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111000 11111111000 1111000 01010101100 110011111 11110101010 1100101010 1100110010 1101110010 1111011101 11011011110 110111011 111110111 111110101010 11010100010 10111011110 111111000 110110111 11010111010 1100010010 111110011 1100011010 100111000 110111111101 11111100 11111111 110110101 1101110001 1101101100 11011110 11001101100 1101000110 1101101110 1111111111 1100011010 1001101000 11111111000 1111000 01010101100 11011111 111111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 437
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; von, und, die, der are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words und, da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Morgen Im Schloß;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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