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

Rom war dahin! - Sie, die nie ihres Gleichen
Auf Erden hat gesehn, sie war gefallen!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXXaaXXXX XXXXXbXXXcXXX dXeXXXXXXXXXX XXXXfXXXXXXXX XfXeXXXXaXXXX XXddXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXbXX XXXXXbXXXXXcc XXXXXXXXaaXbb XXXXXXXXXeXXd cXXaXXXXeeXXX XXXXXbXcXXcXb XXXXXXXXXXXXb XXXaXXXXXXeXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111111010 1101101111100 100111011 11100111101 111011110 1111111110 1111100 11111011 1011010111 1111010110 110110101 1111011110 1111111110 111111110101 111011110 1101011101 11111010111 1011111100 11100111110 1101100 1101101010 111100110 01010110110 11010111010 11010111100 11010111100 11100011110 1111111100 110010011 1110111110 11110101010 111110110 110101 11011001110 1110011101 110011111 1100111100 11011101110 11111011100 11000111100 110101101 11111111 111010110 110110111101 111011010100 0101000 1100110010 010111110 101101100 1111111100 111110110 110010101 1101011100 111010111 1001110111 100111101 110101101 1101011101 1011111 1100011100 111001111 110111110 1111111100 10111001100 1111111100 11111111 101011010 1101100101 1111011101 11011111100 1111111110 1111100 1110011100 1110101010 10010111110 111111110 1101111111 110101111 1111100010 111011000 110111111 1101111110 110111111010 11111101110 1110110 10111111100 111111101 111101001 1110101010 11111111001 1101110001 11110101100 111111111100 111011110 1101011101 111111111100 11111100110 111100 1111011010 111110110110 1111110110 1101111100 11110111010 11011101010 110100110 1101001101 111110001 110111111 10011111010 1111010111100 1101100 10111011 1001110111 110111001 111111011 111010110 1001110111 111111111101 111111111 1001110010 1111110101 11011011000 11110110100 1101110 11110110 1111111 1101110111 1111101 11011110 111010010 11110111010 1111000111 110101011 111101111 1001111101 111110111 111111 11110101101 110011101 1011011101 1011011101 1001110101 110011001 11110111100 1110110101 1001110111 1101010100 1101111100 11011111110 1100010 111101110 11101111 1101001110 11110101010 1100111010 111101001 1100101100 0110101100 110111111 1111011101 1101011111100 1101111100 111111100 11011110010 111110111111 11101101 11010111010 111111110 11101111010 111111110 11010111010 11011111 1111111111 100011110 111101111100 111100 1111111101 110010100 11111110 101111101 1111110110 1011010010 11001101110 11011011000 1111011111 010010 10110111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 526
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 188
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sie, die, war, s, der, und, ist, ihr, es, ein are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words was, die, der, habt, ihr, ein 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 llen, e are repeated).

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