This is an analysis of the poem Der Unbekannte Ritter that begins with:
Zwar hält die Fluth geschieden
Frankreich von Engelland;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXaXbcXXXXbXXXX X XbXXXXdXXXXXXeXXabXXXXXXaXXeXcXXXaXf X XcXXXXXXXdXd X XXeXXXXXcXXXXXdbXccX X XXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXEXXXXcXXXfXXcXXcXXcXXXXXXXXX X EXXfXXXXXbXXXXXeXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,1,36,1,12,1,20,1,56,1,32,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100 101100 11011010 11110100 110111 11110 111111 1100010 1111100 11001111 1101110 10011 1111100 111001 11010100 111101 11110100 1111 11011100 1011101 1 111011 110011 101011 110010 1101100 1101001 111010 110101 1111010 100101 100111 10101 111010 101101 1011010 111100 1111010 110111 1111111 111001 1110110 110111 1111100 111001 1111010 110010 1111 110111 111100 111 111111000 110110 1101110 1100110 111111 111101 1 1101100 100111 110101 110110 111100 100111 1100100 111101 111100 11001 110110 101101 1 1111010 11101 10111 111001 111111 11001 111111100 110100 1101010 110100 111110 110010 101101 11110 1110010 110111 1111100 111011 11110 111110 1 111111010 11010 1100100 11111 1011110 110111 111110 11110111 1011100 11111 111010 1010101 1101100 01111 10110110 110110 1111100 110101 110110 10111 1110110 11011 110110 111001 11011 111110 1110110 11110 111101 101101 111110 11101 11111 111001 111110 110111 111111 111101 110111 111110 10001010 110100 1111010 111101 111111 111111 110111 111101 110101 111100 1101010 110010 111010 110101 11011110 11101 1 111101 111110 111110 111101 1111110 100110 11110 1110 110010 110111 1111110 1111 010111 111010 111010 110101 1111100 110001 110010 110111 101111 111101 11101 11110 111101 11111111 100111 11101 1111100 110110 11111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 191
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, der, ein are repeated.
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