This is an analysis of the poem Phantastische Nacht that begins with:

Wenn ich, von meinen Geistern überwältigt,
Tiefnachts den Blick ins Licht der Kerze hebe,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXbX XXcXXXXXXX XXXXXaXXXX XXXXXXbXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXdd XXXXXXXXXX XXeXXXeXXX ffXfXXXfXe XXXXXcXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101010 10111111111 1001111000 101111110 111010010 100110010 1111010111 100111100 1111011 101111011 110111100 111011010 1111010111 111111110 101111000 111111100 1111111110 111010110 1111010101 101101111110 1100111100 1101011010 110111111 11011001100 1011111100 111101110 101111010110 1111110101 1111010110 1011111110 11111110110 1111001 11110011100 1111110111 011010011 1011001111 010000011 01111111100 1011101100 1100100100 10111111010 1111010110 110011110 1001101100 111111110 111111000 110101011 11011111111000 1011001100 011001101 11011111110 11010111110 110111101 111111111010 1101111110 1100111101010 11110111 1101110110 1100011100 11100111 11100111000 1111010110 10100111110 11010101100 11010110000 1111011110 110111000 1111101110 110001101 110100101 110110100 1101010110 10111110 1101101100 1111010101 101111100 11010110100 11001101001 11001001010 10101011 11101101110 111111010 110111110 111101000 11010101010 10011111111 1111111010 11111110 111111011 101101001 1101010110 10111011 111101111100 1101010011 11001111010 110011100 110101000 111111111 1100101000 11010111110 100101001 011101 110111001 111111001 011101101 1111111111 01011111100 111010100 1111000111 11011001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • 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, schon, noch, und, der are repeated.

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

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

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