This is an analysis of the poem Sonette An Wien that begins with:
Du liebe Stadt, du herrliche, du meine,
so traut wie einer Mutter Angesicht...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXX XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01101001 1111010100 01110111 1111101111 111101100 11101111 11110111 111011111 1111010001 1111011 111110011 1101010001 110101111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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 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.
The poet repeated the same word t at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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