Prolog Zum Fünfjährigen Bestandsjubiläum Der Ravag (Radio Österreich) Am 1. Oktober 1929 by Anton Wildgans: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Prolog Zum Fünfjährigen Bestandsjubiläum Der Ravag (Radio Österreich) Am 1. Oktober 1929 that begins with:

Ihr, die ihr hört an diesem Tage, da
Sich uns zum fünften Mal das Wunder jährt,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XaXXXXXbXXXXXXcX XXXXXXadaaXXXXXaXaXXXX eXXXXXXXdaXeXXaXaXXcXXXX bXdXXXXXaXXXXXXXaXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,16,22,24,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111011 111111101 1111111 11101111 010111101 110101010 1101010001 11110010 1111110110 111111100 111000111 111111101 1110101010 1111110100 111110100 111010101 110011111101 1111111 111101011 1111011101 101111100 111110100 110111101 111001011 1101100101 110111011 11001100 1111111 1111110111 111010110 1111001011 1101100100 1100010101 11001110 11111111 111111010 111010011 1111111 10111011 111101110 1100111011 111111101 1101100111 110111111 1110011000 1110011100 1101100 110101010 111110101 11100111 111101100 1101010111 111111101 1101011000 11111001 11111111 11111111 1101110111 111010110 110111011 11011111 1111010100 11100110 1111011111 1111111100 110010001 011001111 111111111 11111111 1111010101 11110101010 1110010100 100110011 100101110 111111111 1101011101 111110101 1101001101 1111110 10111111 111111110 1011001011 111111111 110111101 111111100 1111111110 1011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 702
  • Average number of words per stanza: 131
  • Amount of lines: 87
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; du, und, als, ich, die, ist, ein, ren, h, der, wort, das are repeated.

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

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