This is an analysis of the poem Todeserlebnis that begins with:
Ich denke dich an jedem Tage, Tod!
Seitdem ich dich in Knabennächten fühlte...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXa XaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111011 101101001 111111111 1011010111 1100111101 100100111 110110011 111010100 111101111 11000010010 11001011 111101100 110111111 11011110
- 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: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word die is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hlte is repeated).
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