This is an analysis of the poem Sehnsucht that begins with:
Der Lerche wolkennahe Lieder
Erschmettern zu des Winters Flucht,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 10011101 11101110 111011 1011001 101100110 1101010 11010100 111010100 1101001 11010110 1111000 0111111101 1110010 11110011001 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sehnsucht;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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