This is an analysis of the poem Die Wanderungen Des Ahasverus - Erste Wanderung I. that begins with:

Jerusalem lag eingehüllt in Schatten,
Es schwieg die Stadt, des Kidrons dunkle Welle,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXXXXXXb XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXbXXXaXXXX XXccXddXXXXXX XXbXXXXXXcXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXbXceXXX XXffXXXbXXXXb X XaeeaXdbXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,1,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100110010 1111110101 111101011 111011001 1101111111111 11111011010 110110 110110101 110101101 11011111 11110110 1011111110 1101110110 11111100100 11101101010 1111011101 110011011 11010101110 110110100 11110 110111111101 11111111 111111101 111001110 100111101 111111011 111110101 1110101100 111111110 0101110100 1111111101010 1011110100 111100 1011101100 111011111 111011101 1110010100 1111000100 111111011100 11011101110 0111101101 101010101 1101111 110111100 1010010101 11011 110101011 101101101 1101110101 11111011 1101111100 01100111100 110111110 01010101010 101110001 1101010111 1111111010 1111010110 110110 111111111 111010110 11110110011111 1101010001 10010101100 011111111111100 1101010101 111111101010 1001010101 1011001110 1011001010 111000010 111110 101001101 111101011 11111111001 1111000111 100111110 111111000 1110101010 1110011100 110101011111 110111110 11011101010 11010101000 101010 1111101010 11101011 110101101 111111100 11111111010 11111110 1101110110 11111100 1111111 1100010111 1101011100 1111111 111100 1101111 1111011101 1110011111 01011111 1111111110 1111110010 1 11011111000 110101111 101001111 1011010001 10011001 110011111 110101 1111101010 1011010111 1100111101 01100101010 11011111110 11001011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 486
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 125
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; h, die, du, sie, und, von, der are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, es, die, und, so 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 cheln is repeated).

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