This is an analysis of the poem Erfahrung that begins with:
Ich kann so gut verstehen die ungetreuen Frauen,
So gut, mir ist, als könnt' ich in ihre Seelen schauen. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111110011001 111111101101 11111011110 11110101100010 11010101111000 110001000110 111111111000 111111111100 11111110011 11010110010 1111111010 1111110111111101 1111110101101100 11111110011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 728
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ich, die, lust, wie are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, wie are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ssen is repeated).
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- summary of Erfahrung;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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