This is an analysis of the poem Towards Evening, My Heart that begins with:

Towards Evening, My Heart
The screeching of bats at evening....

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXabbaab X a XaXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011 01001110 11010011 011010 001000110010010 000011111 0000110000101 101011001001 11101 01011010 11011 11011111100 11010111 11101 11001011111 101010111 101001100101 110111010 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, der are repeated.

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

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