This is an analysis of the poem Trutzkaiser that begins with:
„In diesen schlimmen Zeiten wer baut mir einen Thurm,
Darin mein Haupt kann ruhen bei Hagel und bei Sturm?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa XXXX b XXX XX XX ccX X cXXX XXXb XXXXX XX aX XXX X XXdd XXXX eXeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,3,2,2,3,1,4,4,5,2,2,3,1,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010111101 1011110110111 1101110110111 111111011011111 1111010110111 1111000111000 111100111101 111111111101 11111111101 1111111100 110101111100 1101010110111 1111101111111101 1110111110110 1111111111 1111010111111 1111100111001 111110100111 1110110111011 1110001101010 01111110100 101011111111110 111110111101 1111010110011 1111010011101 1110101011101 1110110011110 111111110111 111010110100 1 1111100111111 11111111011 111111110110 1001010111101 111100111110 1011110111101 1110100111110 111101110111 1111011111 111101110101 1101010111010 111110110111 11111111110 11011111111101 1111100100101 1101010111110 11110111111000 111111011111 1111011110 111111111001 1111111111 1111000111101 100101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, hagel, der, ein, und, ich are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Trutzkaiser;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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