This is an analysis of the poem Epilog Zu Uhlands »ernst Von Schwaben.« that begins with:
Ein halb Jahrhundert sah ich fast entfliehn,
Seit ich, ach, der vergänglichsten von allen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaabXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011110 1111100110 1101111110 11011101110 111010001 1101101101 110111001 111110101 11010111100 1101010101 1101111101 101110111 1111110110 11111101 11110111100 1110011110 1110101110 1101111101 1101011001 111010101 1111111 111011100 111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 989
- Average number of words per stanza: 178
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ich, dem, und are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
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