This is an analysis of the poem Rast Zu Mittag that begins with:
Gefällte Stämme, blankgeschält,
Sind aufgehäuft am Straßenrande,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 1100110 1111111 11011100 1111111 11111010 1101100 110101010 11110110 11100100 11010111 11001100 1111100 110111010 11011110 11111010 11111101 11001110 1110100 1101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; das, vom, und, der are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vom is repeated.
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