This is an analysis of the poem In Trüben Tagen that begins with:
Ihr werthen, lieben Gesellen,
Wir leben in düstrer Zeit,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXA XXXX BBXX XCXX XXXX XDXX XXXE XFXX XFXFXXXA XXXX BBXX XCXX XXXX XDXX XXXE XFXX XFXF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100 110011 11011100 11110111 1101100 111101 111100 11011001 1111100 1101111 1111000 11011011 111111 11110101 111101 1111010 111110110 10111011 1101010 1101101 11011100 0101001 111110010 111010110 11001110 11011011 11010100 1101110 110110110 1001111110 11111110 11001011 110111100 110111 11111110010 110101 111110 111101 1111001 1011111 1101100 111101 111100 11011001 1111100 1101111 1111000 11011011 111111 11110101 111101 1111010 111110110 10111011 1101010 1101101 11011100 0101001 111110010 111010110 11001110 11011011 11010100 1101110 110110110 1001111110 11111110 11001011 110111100 110111 11111110010 110101 111110 111101 1111001 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, ihr are repeated.
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