This is an analysis of the poem Bei Goethe's Tode that begins with:
Horch! durch Deutschlands weite Gauen
Schallt der Grabestuba Klang;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXa XAXA XbXb XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XcXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XAXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 1110001 100101 101100 1111111 11110 1010101 101010 1111100 1011101 1011110 111100 11101010 100111 1111110 111101 11111110 111111 11101110 111111 111111000 1011111 11111011111 11011 11101110 1010111 1111100 1110101 11101010 101101 11111111001 111110 11101110 111100 1110100 11110101 111110101 1111100 111110 110010 1110111 101111 1101110 1110101 1111111 1111101 111011 1110111 11101000 1110001 11101110 1010101 1110110 111110 11011010 101010 1111011 1111100 1110010 1010101 111111000 1011111 11111011111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; nicht, mit, und are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sein is repeated.
The author used the same word und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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