This is an analysis of the poem Die Kirchweih Zu Unkel that begins with:

Der Morgen glänzt so mild und klar,
Die Sonn' auf flammenden Altar...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXX cXXXXX XXXddX XXXXXX eXXfXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XghXXh gXXgXX aXXXXX X XXXXXX ffXbbX XebeXX ffXeXX XXXccX XXXffb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 11110010 11010010 1111111 011111011 111001 11110011 1111110 1110010 1111111 11010010 11100110 0111100 11101001 1111001 111101 11001101 1101110 111111 0111101 1101111 1011101 11010001 1011111100 1011111 1111100 111100100 11011111 11010110 110111010 11011110 11001110 1101111 1111111 1110100 1011110 1110110 111101100 1111000 110111 111110 111111100 1101100 11101101 11101101 1110111 01011101 11011111 1111111 11110101 110100110 10110101 110100 110110100 110111010 11111101 110101010 11011101 11000101 110111110 1100 11111100 111111 111111110 10111101 111010 111110110 11111101 10111101 110100110 11011011 11111111 111111110 110110 1100111 11010111110 110111 11010100 1101110 11011101 11111111111 11010101 11001101 11111101 11010100 11110100 11011000 11100100 1111111001 11110101 11110111110 111111111 1111111 110111100 111111 111111 111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 99
  • 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; die, der, und, deutsch, dein are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wie, die, von, vom, deutsch, und are repeated.

    The author used the same word 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 hn is repeated).

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