This is an analysis of the poem Lied Des Lebens that begins with:
Flüchtiger als Wind und Welle
Flieht die Zeit; was hält sie auf? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 111111111 11110111 111100111 1111110 111111 10111010 1110111 1011110 0110100 1011111110 1111110 1011101 101100 1111111 1101101 110111 1110110 111110101 1111101 1110101 11111101 111110 101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 748
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; sie is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sie is repeated.
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