This is an analysis of the poem Whither? (From The German Of Müller) that begins with:

I heard a brooklet gushing
From its rocky fountain near, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cded feee acfc fcacXfbab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 0010101 10001010 111101 11111101 110101 1111010 101101 1011010 1100101 1101010 1101001 00011110 1011011 1101110 1011001 11110010 111100 101011110 1100101 101111010 1101001 01001110 0100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, ever are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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