This is an analysis of the poem Zueignung that begins with:
Mir träumte einst von wildem Minneglüh'n,
Von hübschen Locken, Myrten und Resede, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 111010110 111011101 11101100 1001101111 1011110100 100111110 111001011 0110011011 11110111100 1111011000 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; von is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words von, und are repeated.
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- summary of Zueignung;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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