This is an analysis of the poem Translations And Adaptations From Heine that begins with:

FROM ‘DIE HEIMKEHR'
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  • Rhyme scheme: X abaca defe Xggdd gghh Xfgig ejfX XhXkf aflfl Xjdj mkfk acXff nlaX nfaf mfff alcl iaafX XXXjdj bgXX ckjk jcfX ckck jjfj lcjc aknk XlmknkXeccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,4,5,4,5,4,5,5,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,5,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110 1 01110110 11101011 11010101 0111011 11111010 10101011 11111101 010111011 1 11101010 111111110 1101111111 1111111111 1111101010 111110010 11100110010101 1111110001 1 11111010 11101110 10101010 11111010 10111111 1110111 010101010 111110 1 11111101 11001100 11010101 11110 1 01010101 110101 01010101 11111101 11110101 110101 1111110 110011 110111010 0111101101 11010111 0110101 1 001011 1111100 110001010 011101 10111011 10111010 011101011 11101010 11010101 1111010 10100011 00100010 0101001101 01100010 11001010 1111010 1100011 01111011 110111011 1011100 0100010 1101100 11110101 1101011101 1001111000 1 101100 1101010 010011 1010110 110101 11011010 0110100 1101110 101000 1101111 111111 0111111 111101 11111111 110011 0100110 110111 1111011 100111 1111110 011011 0111011 110111 00101110 011101 0101110 011101 0111111 111001 1111111 1111001 11100100 101011 1 11 111100111 11111001 1111101101 1111001 11011011 1101011 0110010111 10010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 124
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; so, and, dead are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in, the are repeated.

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