This is an analysis of the poem Ich Hatte Einst that begins with:
I had a lovely homeland long ago.
The oak trees seemed ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXBXXaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011101 0111 11110100111 0101 0110101010 1101 1001011111 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
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