This is an analysis of the poem Kaisers Wort, Gottes Wort that begins with:
Was gilt ein Wort in dieser Zeit?
Das lohnte sich zu wissen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXXXaXc dXeXXXXXXXXX XXfXXXbXXXXXXgXgXXXXXhhXX XXaXXXaXXX X XcXX XXXXe X XXXi XX ieX i XXaXfXXedX XXXXjjXaXX XXfXjjXjjX XXXXXXXfXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,12,25,10,1,4,5,1,4,2,3,1,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111110 1111011 1101100 11111111 11110111 1101110 1101 1101 1 1111010 11011111 11110110 11001111 101111 1 11110110 11011110 1101110 1100 1101 1 11010100 1101110 1101010 111111 1111010 1 11111101 1111111 1100110 111 0101 1 1111110 1 11011101 1111110 11011101 10111010 1 1101101 1111001101 1101100 1101 1111 1 0100101111 111111110 1011000 1111111 1011110 1 010101101 1110111 111110 1110 1101 1111000 11110100 1101110 11001100 11110 1111010100 1111001100 11111011 1100 1101 110110 1101101 1011100 1111010100 111010 111111 111111101 11110010 1111 1100 11001110 1111100 1111100 11011101 0101110 11000101 11001010 111110 1111 111 111101000 11110110 1100110 11111111 110110 11011101 1101101 111110110 1101 1101 1011010 1110100 101000 111101111 110110 1101111 11011101 111011 1111011 0111 101111 11111011 1111110 111110 1100110 11111110 1111100 111100 111 110 11011111001100
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 119
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wort is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, die, sie, bis, und are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase geleit connects the lines.
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