This is an analysis of the poem Spruch Dem Dichter that begins with:
Zu den Tischen, wo schon andre saßen
Und sich an den Erstlingen befraßen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXa XXXbbb XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111 111110010 1011111 100011111110 1111111 11111100111 1011101110 111111110 11101011 1101101010 11111010 11101010 111011111 101011100 1111110110 11111111 10111100 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; den, zu are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines en is repeated).
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