This is an analysis of the poem Erlkönigs Tochter that begins with:
Herr Oluf reitet spät und weit,
Zu bieten auf seine Hochzeitsleut. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXAbbXXCXDXCXDXaXCXDXXXdXXXXXXXeXeXfXXXdXaXXXffA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 110110100 1011111111 110110111 10101111 10011011110 100110111111 1111011011 1011100 111101101111 1110111 1111011011 1011100 111101101111 11111111 11111111 11011100 1111011011 1011100 111101101111 11111111 11111111 11011111 111101101111 11110101 11111011111 11010101 1111110111 11111101 11011101 10101011 11111111 1111111 1111111111 1101001 11111111 111110101 11111111 11011111 10111111 11111111100 111101111101 111101101 110010111 01101111 11111101 111101011 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1924
- Average number of words per stanza: 375
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ich, tanzen, r, und are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ein is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).
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