This is an analysis of the poem Der Sterbende Krieger that begins with:
Wir sind am Ziel, hier setzt die Bahre hin,
In diesem Wäldchen ward ich todeswund,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXb XcbX XaXX cbXX XaXa dXdX XeXc XXaX XXeX XXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101111 010111100 1011111011 100110101101 11101011000 110110100 11101110 1111111101 11101011000 11111101010 111001011 1101010110 11101011000 1101011111 111111010 1101111100 111010110 1011010100 110111111 1111011111 11111101 1101100111 110111111 111111101 110111101 1101111111 1111011101 1101010110 1110111 111111111 1101011100 1111110010 1111110100 110011101 111111001 111010001 110101111 11011110 111101111 1101011100 11111111 1111111100 1111111101 110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; hier, ihr, und, der, die are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hier, und, es are repeated.
The author used the same word als at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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