This is an analysis of the poem Erlebnis that begins with:
Mit silbergrauem Dufte war das Tal
Der Dämmerung erfüllt, wie wenn der Mond...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001111 11011111 1101011111 11110011101 100110100 1110101100 100111110 110010101 111101001000 11110111100 010111111 110111101010 1001011011 1011101111 11111110100 1001011100 1011010 1010 1100010110 010111101 1101101110 1111010001010 110010111 110010110 1101110101 111101110 1111011111000 111110101 1110101010 1110101110 1100101010 1111010001000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1346
- Average number of words per stanza: 213
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die is repeated.
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- summary of Erlebnis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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