This is an analysis of the poem Terzinen Über Vergänglichkeit - Erste Terzine that begins with:
Noch spür ich ihren Atem auf den Wangen:
Wie kann das sein, dass diese nahen Tage ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaabXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101110 111111101 11110111100 1111110110 111101111 11101100 1111011110 100110101 1111100111 1111110101 111011100 111110111101 111111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 558
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; und, dass are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines haar is repeated).
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