This is an analysis of the poem The Landgraff that begins with:

Through Thuringia's forest green
The Landgraff rode at close of e'en;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbccXabbddeeeaeabbbbffddgggghhbbdbdXiaiXbbeeiibbeaeaededhhhhXbeebbddeXhhbbbbeXbXXabbeedXaabbeecccggjjaabbbbbbbXkkbXbXXXiillbbXcacbbmmbabahhXkkeebbbbggbbhhllbeeXbbbbiibb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 170,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101 010111010 10110101 110010101 11011101 01110001 11010110 11110101 11010001 01011101 10010101 11110101 11011001 11011111 11011111 0100101011 11110111 10111111 10111101 010101001 01010111 00111111 110100111 010111001 01110101 11010101 11010101 01111111 10010001 01011111 01011111 01011101 10010001 11111101 11111111 01011001 1101001001 11110101 11010101 10010101 01010101 11010111 10010101 11010101 00110101 01110101 11111001 110101001 110011101 11110101 11011101 10011111 11011111 01010101 01011101 01011101 00110101 11000101 01110101 101101011 01100111 11001101 11110111 010100101 11011001 00010101 11010101 110010001 11111111 10010111 11110101 11011101 01110101 11000101 10010101 111110011 11110001 01000100 10011111 01110011 11010101 11110111 11010110 010011101 11111111 10110101 11010101 11110101 1111111 100110111 11010101 11110111 11001101 01001111 11011111 11110101 10110101 10110111 0100011 10111111 01010111 10111111 01010001 101111010 010101110 01011111 101111101 11110101 01010001 01110110 01010101 11010111 11111101 11110101 010010101 11010101 11111101 11111111 01100101 111101010 01011111 11111111 10011101 10110111 01010101 01000111 11010001 01000100 10111101 11110101 11110101 11110101 11110101 010111010 110111110 11010101 10010101 01110111 11011111 00111101 11111101 01010100 10110101 11010001 11011101 11011101 11010101 01010011 110011111 11111101 11110101 110101001 11010101 011100111 10011101 11010111 111001111 11011101 11010101 11010101 01011011 01111101 01110101 00110001 11100111 01111101 00110101 01110001 10011101 01110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1162
  • Amount of lines: 170
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, golden, he, pray, of, ', my are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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  • summary of The Landgraff;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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