This is an analysis of the poem Pleasures (Translation With The Original German, that begins with:
First look from morning's window
The rediscovered book...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbXXXcabdacccX X dXXXcXXXXXXXXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,1,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 000101 101010 1010010 0110 01 100 10010 110 10001 1010 110 1010 100 10 1010 100 1111110110 1100001 100100 111011000 110 11 1100 1010 110 101 100 1010 1010 10 10 101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 16 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 2
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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