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

Schon verschwinden jene Berge,
Die die heit're Stadt umziehn,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011 111110 11011 111101 1110110 1010001 11111010 101111111 1111101 11001011 10101010 101100 1101111010 1011111 1110101 111110101 111111 111011110 11111100 1011110 111111 1010100 11111110 1010110 1111111 1111111 1111110 101100 111111 111110110 111110 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; so is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, so are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Die Reise;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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