This is an analysis of the poem Die Schwalbenhode that begins with:
1.
weh unser guter kaspar ist tot...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXcXXXaXdddefXXX X gXXgXXXXX X XXXXXXhXXXgcXXihXeXXXjgXggXi X kgjXkXXXfXXXXkX X XXbXXXe eXXXXghX XkXXagXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,17,1,9,1,28,1,15,1,7,8,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110101011 111110111111 10 1111001 11101001111111 10111101000 1111010101110010 1011 1101001101110100 1010111010 1010 1010111001011110 1101100101101 10110110001011 1010110010 11001010110111 10100111000 1 1101011 1110011011110 11111001 10111111110011101 101011100111 11000110 101111010101010 10111111100110 100 1 11100010011001 1101011 110001111011100010 10010010000100 11100 111010110110110 11011101101 10001 11000010001001110 1011101100101 111110101101101 11101110010111 101100 11010110111001 101000101111 1110010111010101 111111000010 111101111001101 10111011011010 11001010101010 11010101111101 10 111011011011 10 110010100100100 10111001010110 1010010101010110 101001000101 1 110011010011101 1 10101010100110 111111100010 011011100101 1 111111110100 10 111110100001111 11 1111110 11011100000110 100 10111110011011 1000110 1 101111110100 1111011 111010110111011 1011011010 11100110100011110 1110010110 1110111 1110111 1111100 1001010111101010 11011100 11010110010 11101101111101 1111001101111 1 110111001100 1101111110011 110 111110111011010 1 1111001010 1110001001010 11100010010100 11110101111000 1
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 99
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; weh, kaspar, oder, ein, die, der, wer, in, nur, und, den, aus are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, den, im, und are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kaspar, in, holz are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase kaspar connects the lines.
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- summary of Die Schwalbenhode;
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