This is an analysis of the poem Die Abassiden that begins with:

Unterm Schatten alter Linden
Saß vor seines Hauses Gitter...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXbXXXX bXXbbXcXdX XeXXXXXXXXX cbbXbXXXXXbXX XXXXXXXXdXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXbXXXX X aXXX XXXc XXXX XXXX eXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXX XXXX XXcX aXfX X XXXX XgXX fXXX XXXf XXaX XXXX XXXX XaXa hghg XXXX gXXX XXgX X XXXXXXXX XaXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXccXXX X XXaXXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,11,13,14,15,1,4,4,4,4,5,5,5,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,8,8,8,8,1,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 11101010 1001100 10110110 10111010 10011010 1001110 1111110 1011100 11101010 101111 1111010 1110101 1100101 111110 11100110 1111100 1110101 11001100 1110101 101110010 111111101 111111 1101110 11111100 10101100 1110110 11111110 1001100 1100101 1111100 1110101100 11111010 1011110 11101110 110010 1111110 11110110 11111010 10111 1010101 1100101110 11100010 10101110 11001110 111110 11001000 11111000 111110 1111110 1100100 11101110 11001000 110001 11111010 110010 101111 11111100 10101111 11101100 11101 11111111 1001100 10101010 11111010 1101100 1011101 1011110 10101110 1111010 1010111 101011111 11101010 111001111 1 010101010 1101000 11110100 110111010 11000101 10110101 11111101 111111111 111101100 1111000 111111100 11110100 111111010 110101000 11111110 111011110 010101 111101 11110 1101110 111010 111110 11001 11110 1111110 11100111 1111110 111100 11011 110011 111100 111111010 11111110 1010010 10011110 11010100 1001111101 1101111 110111 111111100 111111110 1111101 110110 11110110 11110101000 1001101 11111100 1 1111011101 1011100 1111101 111111 111110 1111111101 11110111 1111110101 1111011101 11111001010 11110101 11011001 1101110110 1010011111 011111110 111011101 11111111111 10110110 1111011101 1111011001 111111011 1111111101 1111101 1111011 10111100 1111001 1111010 1111110 11111010 111011 11101000 1110011 111001 11111 1111101 1110111 0111101 111111 111011 10111 11010101 1101111 11011011 1001101 10111110 11110110 1111001 10011110 1 1101111100 111101000 1111101110 1111110011 111111111001 1110111110 1101111110 11111110 111111101 111111101 1110111100 1111111 1111110101 110101110 1111101100 1101110100 1111110111 11111100100 101111011 111111011110 11111111000 11101111 1011110011 11001101000 10111011100 110101111 10111100010 1111110001 1110111 111111110110 1101110110 1101110110 1 111011100 011010001 111011110010 11010111 1110101110 1101111101 1011111 111111111110 10010011 1010111 1010101100 100010100 101110101 101011110 11111000 1111100100 111111101 111010101110 11011010 1111110 111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 230
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; weinte, die, und, von, sie, der, den, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words kein, m, und, sie, nichts are repeated.

    The author used the same words die, und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nzen, ume, en, ften are repeated).

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