This is an analysis of the poem Die Nächtliche Heerschau that begins with:
Nachts um die zwölfte Stunde
Verläßt der Tambour sein Grab,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cXXX XcXX cdXX XbXb XaXa XXXX XXXX XaXa XXcX XcXc XXXX edXX bXeX bbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 111011 111111011 110111 1111010010 101110 1101010 101100 1101010 1110101 11010100 1001110 1111010 100111 1101010 1101111 1111010 111001 111101101 111101011 11111 1110011 1100110 110111 110110010 1101010 110010100 010100 110111 1101110 110110 1101010 11111 111011 1101000 1001101 011101 011101 1101010 101101 11111101 101101 111101 111101 110100 110110 111111001 101110 111101 111101 110111 01111 111011 110111 101101 1101100 111101 110001 11111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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, die are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, sie, die, er are repeated.
The author used the same words und, die at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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