This is an analysis of the poem Unter Der Stadt that begins with:
Knapp unter der Stadt,
in der die Paläste stehn,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXXAXXXbXXAX XXXX aXXaXXX XaXXXXXXXXXbcXXXXX dXXccXXXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,7,18,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 01111 111101010 111011 11110110 11011 0111010 11111010 10111101 110110001 1110010 1100101000 11011 1111 110110100 111010 111110010 1110 1110011 1111010 110010 10101 1 1111 100110 101001 111 11011100 10110 111011 10010 111 110 1011 1110 11111 10101011 101011010 1010 1111011 110110 01110100 1111 10111101 111 0101001 11110 11010 11100101 1011 1001001 10100101 11 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der, in, die, und are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word da is repeated.
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- summary of Unter Der Stadt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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