This is an analysis of the poem Beruhigung that begins with:
Du liebäugelst mit dem Tage,
Doch wenn einst die Nacht wird kommen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXa XXbX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 010011111 11111110 11111000 1111101 11100010 10111 111110 111011 1110010 11011010 1011010 1110101 111111 11111100 110011 1110100 11110110 11001010 11111010 1110110 11111010 10001100 1011010 111010 1110111 1111100 10111010 1101110 11101100 1110101 1011101 1100101 1111111010 01101110 11101010 11111 1011110 1010010 10111010 1110110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, dich are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
The author used the same words und, dann at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stert is repeated).
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- summary of Beruhigung;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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