This is an analysis of the poem Vor Dem Bilde Meines Vaters that begins with:
Warum, o Gott, warum denn noch einmal
all seinen Jammer und die ganze Qual...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXaa ccXXXXddXXX XXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXb XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,9,2,11,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011101110 110101111 01111001 1011101001 01100111010 11101110110 11111101 110011111101 111101111 1111011101 1111110110 110101111 1110011101 1101001 110111110111 111111011 111110011 1111010101 111110111 11111101010 1111011111 1101111000 1101011101 110100111 1111110101 1111110100 11101111 1111111111111 1101010100 1101111011 010110111100 1101011101 110010111 111010101 11101111 10101111 11111011 111110100 1100010100 101110110 100111111 110111101 010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; wie, und, die are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, und are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines leid is repeated).
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