This is an analysis of the poem Liebestod that begins with:
When I was bold, when I was bold-
And that's a hundred years!-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXX dXdX cece fXfX aXaX ghgh hihi ajaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 110100 110111111 0100101 111010100 110111 100011101 11001010 111010111 110111 110111101 01001110 11111111 010011 110111111 0100101 11110101 010101 010111111 11001110 10111110011 10111001 111011101 11011110 11110111 1111001 110111111 1101101 10100111 100111 101011101 1110111 11111111 110101 110100101 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, my, i'll, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 i connects the lines.
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- summary of Liebestod;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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