This is an analysis of the poem Stiller Gang that begins with:
Komm, altes Herz, wir wandern heute weit
Hinaus, wo keine grauen Häuser stehn;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011 10111101 11110110 1110110101 110111111 111010110 1101011111 1101111000 1111110111 11010101 1111111 11100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; das is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word auf is repeated.
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