This is an analysis of the poem To Germany that begins with:
You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed,
And no man claimed the conquest of your land....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaa bccbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111111101 1111010011 1101110101 1101111101 1101110101 11010010111 1011010111 1111101101 1001111101 0111110101 1101110111 1111111011 1001101101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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