This is an analysis of the poem Spruch Auf Den Weg that begins with:

Kind, du wirst leben, wenn ich nicht mehr bin!
So hör' mir zu von dieses Lebens Sinn:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011111 1111110101 1111111111 1111111101 111110111 11011101101 1011011101 1011110100 111110110 1011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nicht is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word es is repeated.

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