This is an analysis of the poem WestÖLiche Rosen that begins with:
1
die rosen werden an die hüte gekreuzigt, die lippen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXbXXaXXXX X XcXXXXdXX X XbdXXXXXXXX X XXXcXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,1,9,1,11,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010111100110 110101 1100101011100 111000100011 11100100 1110010111100 1101111101 1101011001010 101110101001 1010101010110 1100100 1 1101111100100 1010100011110 11001010110 111001011001100 110111011010 11010111100 111010001111 1100011001011 1000 1 110101100110 1000100011101 101101001111 1100001100001101 111101101100 101000101100001 10011101110010 110011111100010 110100110010 1101101111 1111011010101 1 11000110 110011010010 10 11001001110 11010101111 111101 11010101000 10010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, der, und, gel are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word die is repeated.
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