This is an analysis of the poem Die Heide that begins with:
Währt ewig denn die lange Heide,
Liegt sie denn niemals hinter mir,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 1111110101 110101110 11101110 111110100 1101111 111111000 01011111 111101100 1111100 11111011000 1111110 111001100 111101110 110111010 1110110 11110110 1101111 1111111100 111111011111 100111100 11111101 111111010 111111 11111110 1111110 11010110 111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; der, mit, die are repeated.
The author used the same word soll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase werth connects the lines.
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- summary of Die Heide;
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