This is an analysis of the poem Ein Baum Erzählt Von Orpheus that begins with:
Weißer Tagesanbruch. Stille. Als das Kräuseln begann,
hielt ich es für Seewind, in unser Tal kommend mit Raunen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXabXXXXXXcdXeXbXXXXXcXaXaXXXadXX efXX XXXXXXfXXXaXXXeXXXX XXbXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,4,19,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001111010 11111001011011110 1111001000101110 10111110111000 100 11101111 1001100101110111 110101010111110 10011011 111111 1011 111110111 1110010110 011111111 10001011111 1110101111100 101101 111111110101001 1101011110101010 1011101 0111 1010000110010111 110111010110 100111111101 1101111101110 11111011100 1110 111011101011100001 101010101111111 1110 101101110 10110 1111111110010 1111010111110 11111101 1101110011 100011101111 110111011101111 1011 0111111101 111011110001 10111111 101111 1101 101111111011010 011111111111 10110 111 011 111 011010110 111 101111111101 01110 1011111001111010 1101011101111101011 10110 011110001110001 11111011111 11111100111101 111111 11111100 10100 11111111011010 1010101011011001 1110101111010 101110111010 10111010 111010 11111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 745
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 71
- 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; ich, er, von are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ich is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines zwei is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ich connects the lines.
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