This is an analysis of the poem Polterabend that begins with:
Zu meinem Polterabend, lieber Freund,
bin ich so frei, Sie herzlichst einzuladen....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXc XXdXeXeXcXXcfXXfXb gaaXXXhXdXXXbhhbXdXXXXXXXX XXXcXXXXXiiX XXXXchcXXgXXXdaXXaXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,18,26,12,22,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000101 1111111101000 11111111110 1111101110 11100111010 1111010101 100111111111100 110111111110 1100110110 11110111100 11110101110 11111101110 110111010 111101101001 1101110110 1011111100 110111111 110101111101 1101110100 10111111 0101010 1101010001 110011011 11111111 1101111101 1101011110 1111101 1111110010 1111011101 110101101 1101010001 111101011 111101101 11011101100 11110101000 1001010101 111111110110 111110110 1100011111 1110101 11010111 1100100110 11011101011 110011100 0101010110 11001010 111111111 1101111110 1111100010 1111111 1010110011 10110101110 11111000110 111111001101 11011010 111111010001 11011010 1101010110 1110110110 11001100 110111010 111111111 1110011000 1111001100 110101010 11011100 1101011100 1101011001 100111000 11000110010 11011011100 11001101000 11010111000 101001101 1111110 11010101100 1111001100 11101111 1101010101 110101100 110111111101 111111111110 11011011 111110010 1111111101100 111101111111 1111100 110111110 11111111 11111111 111111111111 1110101 111101101 11101110101 11111011000 11111101 11111101111 1110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 810
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 98
- 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; sie, und, der, du, wie, diese are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, der, wie are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines en, hrt are repeated).
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- summary of Polterabend;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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