This is an analysis of the poem Der Schwarze Mönch that begins with:
Vor dem schwarzen Mönch auf dem Marmorstein
In Gnaden bewahret seyd:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXbX cXcdeXXX afXfXXXb XdXdedeX XaaffXXX XXXaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111100 0101001 0101001110 111101001 111111000 110010 100111100 1101110 1101101101 1111001 111111101 110111 1111100011 0111110 1110111110 1011011 1011101111 110101 110000101010 101111 111111111 10011010 11010111011 11111001 011111001 11101001 111010011010 011010001 11011111101 111111 111110110111 110001011 111011001 1101101 101111111 1111101 100011111 11111111 1110011110 111111010 1111111010 011111 010101100 1111111 11111001 1110101 1100111010 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; in, die, der, bei, er are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words das, er are repeated.
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