This is an analysis of the poem Wolken that begins with:
Der Zug der Wolken mahnt mich an den Tod.
Sie wandern von den Meeren her in Heeren...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011111 1111011100010 1111101000 1111110100 111011100 1101101100 1111101100 1111110111 1111110100 100111100 1110110010 1011100110 11111101100 11010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; den, der, und are repeated.
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- summary of Wolken;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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