This is an analysis of the poem Die Ueberraschte that begins with:
Amor schlich in stiller Nacht
In mein Haus verwogen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXb XXXX aXXb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 011100 1110100 101000 111101 111100 1011100 11100 111111 101010 1110010 111010 1110111 01110 101110 111100 1111111 111110 110110 111110 110111110 01111 1111111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
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