This is an analysis of the poem Prolog An Die Unbekannte that begins with:
Wenn abendlich geliebte Lampenhelle
Den ernsten Umkreis später Rast begrenzt...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXaXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXbXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXXXXXX bXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010100 110101110 111101010 10111001 11111001 11001101 11001101010 11000110100 11110111010 110111111 11110111100 1101110101 11110111010 111001110 1111110010 111011100 11111011010 1001110110 1111010010 111111100 11110101000 1101011110 1111111100 11011101100 100111111 0101011000 110100100 100111001 111111 1111000100 1110011100 11111100100 11110101000 1001110000 11111101000 10111111 1100011010 110001110 100100010 11001001000 11101111 110011010 1011010100 111011110100 111000100 11001101 1100110111 1001110001 111101010 111101111 1101111110 1101001100 01010111000 11101101 1110011011 101111101 11111110010 11011011 1110101000 110111010 1111101000 101111011 10010111000 11010101100 1100010100 110010011 1001010100 111010101 1101010101 111100011 1100010111 111111000101 1111101000 1101011101 10110100010 111110100 1011110110 1101010100 100111101 1100111100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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, umen, und, ihr are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
The author used the same word und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ften is repeated).
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