Prolog Zu Thaddäus Rittners Komödie „die Tragödie Des Eumenes' by Anton Wildgans: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Prolog Zu Thaddäus Rittners Komödie „die Tragödie Des Eumenes' that begins with:

Versammelte zu diesem ernsten Fest,
Das einem teueren Gedächtnis gilt,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXXaXXXXabXX XXXXXXcXX dXbXXadXX XXeXXXXXXX XXXXfdXXXXXXXX XdfeXXbXXXXX XXXXcXXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,9,9,10,14,12,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110101 11010101 111111111101 1110111110 111111100 1111010000 10111101 11000101 110111110 1111011 1101111101110 1111011101 1111010001 111101111 1111001100 111111110 111011101 1101011101 1011011101 1101110111 1101110011 110111111 0110001111 1111011100 1111111101010 0110001111 1111111 110011100 1111011011 10011111 1101111101010 10110110010 101101101 1101001101 10110111 111010011 1101000010 101111101 10100010 111111100 1011101110 1101010110 111111101 110110011 11011110010 111111100 1010111110 1100101101 110111110 1101110010 1001110010 1100111101 110000110 1101111010 111111011101 1011011 1001010101 1111100100 11001001010 1100010101 111011101 10111101100 1101110100 1111111101 111101100 1100111111 011011100 111101010 100101111 100101110 1110011101 1111010011 1101011001 11111111 11001101000 111111110 111001100 111110111 111101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 460
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • 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; der, den, in, die are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, dem, ein, dann are repeated.

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