This is an analysis of the poem O, Stolz Möcht Ich Sein... that begins with:
Oh, stolz will ich sein,
dass ich ein Mensch bin....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAXXa AAXXX AXXXX AXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 11111 10101 101 0111 11011 11111 1101101 101101 1101 11011 11110110001 11111001100 1101001 1101 11011 11101001001111010 110010 111110 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, der, ich are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ich is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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