This is an analysis of the poem Einsamkeit that begins with:

Gib mir die Fülle der Einsamkeit.'
Im Tal, von Blüten überschneit,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXXXXXXXX XbXXcXXXXXdXXXeX XXcXXXXXXcXXXbXX XXXeXXcXXXXXXcXXX XXXXXXXXXXbXXXXd XXXXXbXXXXXXXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,17,16,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111100 111110 11111100 0101110 1110111 1110110 10111110010 1110010 1110110 10100010 101001 1110110 111101 1010100 111101 1110100 1111110 1010111 10101110 1011110 1011101 111010 111110 1010011 1010010 1111010 1101101 1111100 1010100 111100 111011 1101000 111111000 1010100 11010101 11001100 111110 1111101 11011000110 111110100 11110010 11011010 1101101 10110 110111 1111101 1110100 111011 11111100 11000100 1101010010 11001101 1100111 1101110 1101101 101100100 1001101 1111010 10001000 101111 1011101 111111001 101111 111111 1001110 1111110 11011111100 111111100 111101100 11011101 11111010 110111100 101111100100 111110001 1100100 1111101 111110100 1011101 110101 11111111 111110001 11111100 1110000 10101111 1110001 11011100 1101111 11011000 1011011 101101 11011 11111010 1110010 110100 1110110 1110111 111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 97
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; und, liebe, die are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, liebe, die, mit are repeated.

    The author used the same word 'gib at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chter, hl are repeated).

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  • summary of Einsamkeit;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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