This is an analysis of the poem Der Thurm Am See that begins with:
Es saß ein edler König
Am hohen Uferrand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXa bXXX XXXX bcXc dXXX XXXX XdXd XXdX XXXX XaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 110100 11011 1001010 0111000 101110 011100 110110 111010 110111 110111 0101101 1101010 101100 11010 101101 0111 1011 111110 01111110 111110 111101 1101110 11101 111101 1111 111100 111111 1101100 111101 111110 111001 1111110 1111 1111100 100111 1001100 100110 111001 110110 111110 11111 1110110 11101 1100100 111101 111101 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, das are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jedwedes, die are repeated.
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