This is an analysis of the poem An König Ludwig Von Bayern that begins with:

1828.
Bei Zueignung der Todtenkränze....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XXXX XXXX abXb XXXa XXXX XXXX XcXc XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110110 111111100 111110110 1111100100 1101111101 011110111 1111001101 11111101001 1100111101 110111111 0111010111 11111110010 1111111111 111111111 111010110 111111111 111110111 01110111010 110110110 0111111100 111101110 11111111000 10111111 10110111000 110111011 1110011110 1101110011 11010101010 11001111 11010111110 1111111101 11011101000 1111011010 111111111 110110001 1111010100 111001111110 111101101 11101111 111110100 1011011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; ist, der are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ich, die, es are repeated.

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