This is an analysis of the poem Weltflüchtige Liebe that begins with:
Wie war mein Leben still,
Eh' du mir begegnet....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX cXcX bcXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 101100 1010 1111110 111001 111111 10111 11011 100111 101 101101 1011 111111 11110 111110 1111110 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; ich is repeated.
The author used the same word wie at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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