This is an analysis of the poem Uraniens Flucht that begins with:

Laßt uns, ihr Himmlischen, ein Fest begehen!'
Gebietet Zeus -...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX Xaaa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXaX XXXX XaXX XcXc aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXa XXXX XdXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011100 1001 1111001111 111010100 1100110100 1101000100 110010100 101101100 1100100010 100011101 1110110010 11110101111 111111010100 1101111101 1101101010 11111001 0111111010 011101010 01111100010 1101010110 11111111 11101111 11111101 1101011001 1001111111000 1011101100 1101011100 110010100 111011100 111110101 1101101100 11011110 111000101 110111100 111110111 101101100 111110101 111011111 11010011 011010100 1001010110 1100010110 11101110 11111111 10111101000 1011010111 10110111110 11110111 1011011111010 111101100 111011111110 1110010011 110111011 110100111 1101001110 110111001 11110110 1100010011 111111110 111101101 1101011101 1011001100 1111111011 110001100 1111111101 110100111110 1100101101 11110111001 0111100111 11011011 110111100 110100101 010111111100 111111111 1111001110 11110011 111001001 111101011101 110110001 110111010 1111010100 110100110 1111101100 101110101 1101111 111100111110 1101110101 11010110 1001111 1111111101 111111111 110111111 11111101010 11110111011 1101001010 111110011 11111011100 110111110101 111011100 111011010 11011101010 010110101 1101110110 11110111 1100101010 111110111 1110111110 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • 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; er, und, winkt, dem, der, die are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, den, er, dem, die are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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