This is an analysis of the poem Phanatsie In Der Dämmerung that begins with:

Das ist die Dämmerung mit ihrem Wogen
Aus vielen Toren, die sich dunkel weiten,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XaXX XXXX XaXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101111010 11010111010 11111000 1101011000 1111111 111111111100 111111101100 11101110 1011101110 110110010 11110110010 11110001010 11011100110 1101111100 11110011000 11000111100 11111011 1110110010 1011110010 11011111111 11101101010 11100101 111101010 11110101100 1111111100 1110110010 10011110 1101101010 11100111010 11010111010 1100111001 1001110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; die, den, und are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nde is repeated).

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