This is an analysis of the poem Dämmerung that begins with:
Still und stiller wird's im Walde,
dämmernd bricht die Nacht herein,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bXbX XaXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 111101 111011 1000100 1111 1011101 11001 1010001 1011110 1001101 111110 1110101 1110010 1011100 1110111100 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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- summary of Dämmerung;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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