This is an analysis of the poem O Mutter, Halte Dein Kindlein Warm, that begins with:
O Mutter, halte dein Kindlein warm,
Die Welt ist kalt und helle, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaX XXXXXXX cXdX XXXX eXeX XXXX XXecXdX XXXX XXeX eXeX XXXX cXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX ABaX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,4,4,4,4,7,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111111 11110101 11101 11111101 111010 110111101 1101010111111111 11111111 110101110 111101 10100100 0111000 11000111 011110 11111111 110111 11110101 110110 1010111 1011010 111111 1101110 11111111 1011110 111010 1111010 1010101101 1011111 1011101 111101010010000 0111000 110001111 110110 11111111 110111 011111110 11111 111111 1101110 111010101 1111000 1011011 1011010 11101111 111100 111111110 1011010 1101101101 1101110 111111101 1101110 110010101 1111110 11111101 1101000 11011111 0110000 11000110 0101100 111111 011100 110011101 1111100 1111110 1011100 1101011 111111110 1100100 111110 11011101 111111 11111011 111101 110101010 1101010 11111111101 11011100 11111101 1101110 11011110 1001010 11011101 1111010 110001111 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lust, du, ach, so, und, es, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase du connects the lines.
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