This is an analysis of the poem Am Deutschen Gränzstein that begins with:
Mir auch pochte das Herz, als von den Alpen ich
Weit hin schaut' in das Land, mythischer Zauber voll,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX bXXX XcXX XXdX XaeX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bfXX cXeX XXXX XdXX XXXX fXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111101 111011100101 111111111 1110011010 11111100001 111110101001 110011101111 111010110 11101111001 11001101010 11110100010 10101110 11101111100 101011111 1101111110 11110110 1011111100 1101110100 110111011 10111111110 1010110111 111001101100 11011101111 111100110 1111110100 11111011110 1101101100 101000110 1011111101 10001110011 111010101100 1011010110 1111110111 10111110100 10111100100 100011010 10111111101 111000101100 11100111101 1011010110 1100011101011 111001101111 111111100 100101110 110011111001 10011010110 1010101111 1111001110 11111011111 101111110 110110111000 1001011010 111011111111 11101101101 11001111101 1110001010 11101010100 1100111111 11011101000 10101110 1001110101 111111100101 11101111110 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; der, und, die are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
The author used the same word als at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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