This is an analysis of the poem Der Liebe Lust Und Qual that begins with:

Manch tiefes Leid, manch bang erschütternd Beben,
Manch stilles Sehnen haucht′ ich in Gesänge,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXXX XXX XXX XXaX XXXX aXX XXX XXXX XXXX XXX aXX bXab bXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXXX XXX XXX XaXX XXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXXX XXX XXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111010 110101101 111111111 1111101100 1111111100 1111111101 1111000101 10101101110 11111100010 010011010 10111110011 11110101010 111101010 11111110 10011111100 0101101100 111110110 1111111100 1101101100 11111111100 1101110100 1101110110 11001101010 1011111110 1011101100 1111111110 11110111010 1100101100 1110111000 1111111100010 11010001110 111111000 111001110 1111101010 11111101110 1001110010 11011111110 1011111101100 1111100100 1101111010 100111110 11101110100 11111101100 1101111110 111011110 10111110100 1111111101 111111110 1101110010 11111111100 1011111100 11111111100 11011101100 11001111010 1110101100 11101110100 1111110111 11110101000 11111111110 110110111 1101110011 110111110100 1111111000 1101110110 1111111110 11010101100 11011111100 111011010 110111110 11111101010 111001011 101111111100 111111110 1101110111 1101010111 110111100 11111101100 1110111110 1111111100 11111101110 11010101000 111111110 1111111100 11110101010 1011101110 11011011110 101111000 11101101110 11110110010 11001101110 11011101010 11011110100 11111011100 11101111100 11111111010 101101111 1111111111 11111111 10110101010 1111011010 10111110010 11011101010 11111110100 1111101010 11111101100 1100111100 1111101110 111110100 11111001110 11000111110 1101011110 111111101010 11111111110 111011000 1100111000 110110110 1101111100 1101100100 1111111110100 11111111000 1011111011 1111100101 1011000101 11111111 111101101 11111011111 1101110110 1111111111111 1101111010 1111110100 10111111100 1101110100 11011111100 111101100 11011110010 11110100100 0101110110 11111111101 1111111110 1111011111100 111111101100 1111111010 1101100100 11111111100 0110011100 11111100100 111111110 110111110 11011100010 1111101110 1110101000 1111101010 1101111110 10111100100 11111100010 111111110110 111011110 111101110 1101000110 111110110 1101111100 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 170
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; manch, ich, die, mir, euch, und, ob, wir, ge, mich, sie, du, den, in, sch are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words manch, bald, ob, ich, mu, o are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nge, cket, ge are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word hen at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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