This is an analysis of the poem Waise that begins with:
Einmal freilich war sein Leben reicher,
Aber dieses rührt nur mehr vom weiten:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111010 1010111110 1110010110 11110 10111110 10011111 11010 111110101 101010100 1010011 1111000101 11110011 11101111 101011110 11100100 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
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