This is an analysis of the poem Getäuschte Hoffnung that begins with:

Im stillen Wiesenthale
Ich einsam mich erging,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXX bXXX XXXc XcXX dadX XaXX XbXX XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100 110110 11111100 11110 111100 11001 1101010 10010 11001111 111101 110101 111110 111101 111110 111101 110001 1111010 100111 1111010 11011 1111010 111111 1111100 111111 111111 111101 111001 100111 11111 10111 111011 11110 1111100 10011 1111100 1111111 1011110 111011 1101110 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, aus are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Getäuschte Hoffnung;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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