This is an analysis of the poem Panische Elegie that begins with:

Köstlich ist dieser Tag, ein Frühlingstag im September!
Aus der Enge des Tals treibt mich die Sehnsucht empor:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXbXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXd XeXXXXXXXXXcaXfXeXXXXXXXagXXXXXe XXXgXXXbXXXXXXeXXfXXXXXdXXXXXX XXXeXXebgXeXXeXXXeXdXbXfXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,32,30,30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011101010 111111111010 101111011011011 11100111111010 10111111010010 111101111110 1111100100010 101110101001 1101011011110000 1100011011011 111111111100010 11101111110 111110100100 111011111011 1111100111110 1011011100001 111111101111110 1110001111101 11101001100110 101111000101111 1111111001111 10111111111110010 1011011010010 1010001010110 1010001011000100 11110101111010 1111111100 1010011010001 11100101100110 1011011111111 11111111011001 1011011001001 1110111111110 101110101111 101100110011110 1011111001001 10110111100010 11111010100010 100101101100 1110110010 1100101011010 10101011001 101101101100010 10001111101 1111101101001 10110111111 1010011101110 11100111010 10101101111001 1011111011 11111101100001 1110111111111 11101111011011 100111000010 0111110011010 111011101111 1100111010010 100101011011 1111011110110100 1111001111101 101111110010 11111001110011 100111010010 1111111010 11101011001110 110010111001 100110110110110 111111101001 1011010111111110 0100011011011 1011010111110100 10010101010110 1110111111011 111100110001 11101110010010 11100111111 1011101011010 111101111110 111101111010010 111101110011 111001010010001 1111011111010 110011011011110 111011010001 10001010010110 111111011001 110100110110100 11100101111101 11100101111110 1110010110011 111101010010100 1011010111001 1011001011011 11100101111010 11111011111111 01100111111 110110111111 111111111010 11111000111110 11111111111 101101111011011 111001101010 10011110010100010 1011011111111010 1111111110100 101000110101 1011111010010 11100011111 111101100001 10100111110001 11110110110010100 1110010101011 10111110101 11111111101 10111111010110 1110001111011 111011001100111 100101110101 111110111010 1110001011001 10001111110110 1010001111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1732
  • Average number of words per stanza: 295
  • Amount of lines: 123
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der, und, st, die, dich, bis, ich are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gleichend, t, bis, und are repeated.

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  • summary of Panische Elegie;
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