This is an analysis of the poem Stimme Im Traume Des Künstlers that begins with:

Und wieder war es, daß die Stimme sprach:
„Du bist nicht hart genug" - und eine Strenge,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaX XXXXX XXXXX XXbbc dXXdX XXXXX ccXcX ecXeX bXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111111 0111100111 1111110101 11111101 11101001 0111101111 111001100 1101011111 10110101 1111110100 0111101101 11111111 110111101 1110111111 11000111 111111111 1011110010 111101101 1111010101 1111110010 1111111111 111111100 100111110 101111101 1011101010 110011111 0101011100 111101111 111111011 1101101000 1111011111 1001100110 111001111 111110011 11111000 101010101 1100111110 11110111 1110111101 10110110 110111101 111111110 111110101 1101010100 1111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • 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; und, nicht are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Stimme Im Traume Des Künstlers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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