This is an analysis of the poem Der Gosausee that begins with:

O komm Geliebte, komm und laß uns hier
In diesem Bergeseden Hütten bauen,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXXb XcXXX XXXXX XcdXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXc XXXcX XXXcX caXXa bdXXX XXXXX XXXXX XaXXX aXXXX dXXXX XeXeX XXXXX XXXXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111110 010100011 110110111 10111010100 1011101111 111111111110 1110110001 110111000 1101111101 1100111110 11111101110 111111100 1100101110 11111011 10110010110 1111110110 1111010110 1111010001 1100111100 01011111 11111101010 10010011 11111111 110111101 110111011 1101100110 1101101101 1111110010 1101010100 1111011110 1101111111 1110111 11010011110 110110101 11100101100 111110011 11011110100 110011100 1100100010 1100011110 11111100 1101001000 1100001101 10101111101000 11011010 1001111100 11111001100 1111100100 11010111110 11010101100 11001001000 11010010100 01010011010 110011000 10110111110 1111011100 1111101010 110101110 11001111010 110111110 110011010 111100011100 111110110 1111010101010 0110011111 1111110100 110110011 111101011110 11010111010 1111111101 1110111100 110101011010 11111101010 11111001110 111111110 11010100100 1111100110 0101110001 11011101100 10111111101 1111100110 11000111 110011010 0111100100 110111010 1010111000 1110111000 111011110 1100011110 1111111111 11011001010 110111110 11110110010 11011010 11110101100 1100110111 110111100 1001111001 11000111010 1000110011 11110111110 1101011110 110011010 1110110010 110011111 11111101110 0101110101 1111011111 1101101110 11111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; der, die, den, und are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hier, den, die, und 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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