This is an analysis of the poem Was Ich Sehe...? that begins with:
. . . Ein dämmriges Zimmer — ein Lämpchen auf
einem Schreibtische und drüber ein mattroter Schirm. Sein Schimmer gleitet über goldene Löckchen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 10101111001110101101101010 10100111101011 110101 111111111 110 110101010 11110 111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; ein, ber, ich, so are repeated.
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