This is an analysis of the poem Alte Liebe Rostet Nie that begins with:
Alte Liebe rostet nie,
Hört ich oft die Mutter sagen;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 11111010 11101 11110010 111101111 111111 111100 110111 111110 111011100 11111 1110010 1111101 111111110 11111011111 111111100 1110111 11111010 111111110 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, ich are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word die is repeated.
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