This is an analysis of the poem Vergeblicher Besuch that begins with:
Standst du noch nie vor eines Freundes Tür
Und hattest angeklopft und horchtest bang:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXa bXXbXXcXXccXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110101 1101001101 1010111101 1101011011 1011111100 11101111 1100010001 11011111 111110101 10100111110 111101111 1110111011 10101101101 10111111111 0111111110 111111111100 1001100101 0101010101 110001 1110110101 1111010111 111101011 1111111110 1100111100 1011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 529
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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, dir are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
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- summary of Vergeblicher Besuch;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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