This is an analysis of the poem Das Geisterschiff that begins with:

Es rauschen die Winde, die Nebel ziehn,
Der Himmel ist sternenleer;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXX XXXXbXbX cXcXdXXX XXXXXdXX eXeeXdXX XXXXeXeX XXXXXXXa XXdXcXXX fXXXfXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111101 1101100 111100101 10110110 111101100 0100001 110111100 1100101 11111111 1101001 110011101 111110 11111111 1101111 1110101111 110110 11111001 011100 11101111001 111110 1101111111 111111 111110101 1110110 11101111110 1111100 11111110 1111101 111111110 1100001 111111110 1011101 1101111001 1111010 11011111 110111 1111011010 11100101 11010111011 11011010 11101011 1110011 1110111101 111011110 111111001 1011011 111011111 1111010 10111111101 11101010 1111110101 1111100 011011101111 0101110 1101001100 1101110010 10110110110 101011010 110110111 110110 0111101011 1110111 111100111 11111011 1101101111 0111111010 1111111110 11100111 101110101 1011010 11111111 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; kein, dort, sein, und, der, die, er, das are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ein, und, er are 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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  • summary of Das Geisterschiff;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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