This is an analysis of the poem Sommermittag that begins with:

Mein Frühling schwand; so mag der Sommer kommen!
Noch hab' ich leicht des Wegs ein gutes Stück....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XaXaXXXX XXXXXXbb XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111010 1111111101 11111101100 11010011 1111111000 10110111 0101010100 110101100 1111010100 111101001 1101011101 10011111 11101101111 0101011100 110111011 1111110101 11110001000 10010110 1100111110100 11011111111 11010101110 1111100110 1100000111110 110111010 111111001 11101010 110111011 11111100 1110011101 111111111 111111001 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; und, noch, ich are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ihr, so, noch are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nge is repeated).

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  • summary of Sommermittag;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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