This is an analysis of the poem An Ludwig Löwe that begins with:

Dein Spiel sey wahr, nie möge Dich verführen
»Der falsche Schein, der Thoren oft entzückt;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XbXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 111111110 11111011 1101101101 11111101111 1111011101 111010111 111001111 11010111010 01011101100 110101111 1100100100 111011001 1111110100 11111101 1111011100 1111110101 1111100101 110001011 1011111111 1111110010 11100111110 111111101 1111101110 11111101 11010101 1101010111 110111111 111110111 11111101100 11011101101 11101001110 111011001 11110111 110111101 1101110101 100111101 11111111 111111111 1101110100 110111101 111111110 1111111 1111011010 1111010111 11011101010 11111110 110101010 110111111 11101111000 11110010 1111110 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • 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; der, es, den, die are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word der is repeated.

    The author used the same words o, und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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