This is an analysis of the poem Wenn Ich, Beseligt that begins with:

When I’m made happy by lovely kisses,
Lying so sweetly in your arms’ prisons,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabAXbaXaXbA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011010 1011001110 111010001 1111011110 1110101100 11101010111 111110010 1111011110 011111101 0101011010 110111111 1111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 485
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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  • summary of Wenn Ich, Beseligt;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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