This is an analysis of the poem Die Unbekannte that begins with:

My golden-haired beauty,
I’m always sure of seeing,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccbccbdcddXceaXbXceXXXcXdXXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110 1111010 0010010 100111 10011110 0110110 111110 0101010 11111011 01111111 1001101 11101010 1010100 00100010 1101111 101010 1101010 01011010 1101110 10100110 10011111 011110 10100100 01101010 11101111 11101100 1101010 01001100 11101110 11101010 00101010 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 944
  • Average number of words per stanza: 180
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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