This is an analysis of the poem Abenddämmerung that begins with:
Am blassen Meeresstrande
Saß ich gedankenbekümmert und einsam....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100 1110000110 11111011 1101110 1111010 1111 10110111 1101011110 11011010110 100110000010 111111010 10101 11111 1100010 1111000 11100011 110101000 1111010010 1100010 1111 10100100 1001101 10000 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 775
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; und is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ein is repeated.
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