This is an analysis of the poem Und Dann War Es Sommer that begins with:

Und dann war Sommer. Ganz in Wiesen stand
Das weiße Haus, umschmiegt von Rosenranken....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXaXXX bXbXbbXX aXXXaXXX XcXXXXXX XXXcXXXX XXXXXddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111011000 110101011 111110010 100111101 1001011110 10010111 1001010110 1101110010 111011101 1000011101 1011001111 110010111 1101111 10011101100 11111101110 11011111 11011101010 11111100 1111011000110 100101111 110111100 1110101010 1110100100 111111101 10111101010 111011101 1101000110 1111101 10010110110 100101101 101111110 110101101 110010100 1011001100 11110110010 110101101 1010111010 1001011000 11111111100 0110110 1010110010 1111110 110111100 110111101 11100111010 10011110 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; und, wie are repeated.

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

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

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