This is an analysis of the poem Liebeswunder that begins with:

In des Rheines Mitte ragt einst eine Pfalz in alten Zeiten,
Nah bei Kaub, wo um die Felsen die getheilten Wellen gleiten;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX bbXX XXXX XXXX aaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX bXXa XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX aXXX XaXX bbaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101111101010 1111111011001010 1111110111101 11011110111111 11110101101100 101001001101 11101111010110 111010101010010 111111101111 111011101111001 110111001111001000 1110101010000100 1111101011011010 111111010001000 1011010001110 100010001101000 1110111010111101 1000110111110110 10100101111100 1011110111011 111100111111101110 1110111011100010 100111111111 1011111001110101 1011111001111101000 1111001100010 111111100111010 10001110111111 111110001010111100 1110011011101100 11101111001100100 1110001110101 10111111111111010 1001111111101110 1110101100010 101110111111010 1111111111100 110011101100110 1100111111101010 111110111100 10111111010111010 11101011111110 11100100110110 10101111110110 1111010111111101 11111010101111101 101110101100100 10101110110100 11111111111111000 1101111101010 10001111111100 1110110111010 10001111011010 10111001111100100 101010010111100 1111011101100110 1011101110110 11001110111110101 10111110111111110 1010111011111111 11111111011111001010 11001001111101100 111111110101110 111101111101110 1111111111111110 10111110111111 110110011111010 111010110111100 111110101111111 111011101010101 1111101001100010 1111011011111011110 111111101111010 111111111101010 11100101010101 11101100101100 1111110111111101 111111001010111 1010101010011110 11111111101111100 11011001111100 1111010111010 11100111111100 11110001111110 1111110011101010 10100110111111010 1111001101111101 1110010111101 1110111100111110110 101111011101110 110111111111111100 101111110101100 101011101111110 1101101011011000 111100011111110 1111111010110100 10110111111100 101100111100 111110010100100 111100101110100 1101101011111000 100101110111100 111111101111111111100 1111111111111110 11011110111111110 1111011111110010 111111101111110 111011101110110 1110110010111100 1011111011110100 10101010111101 11111100111110110 1001101010111100 1111111111010 111111011100100 11111000101110100 1011111111110 111110110111110 11011111111101 11101110111101 1011100101111 1111010111110111 11111100110100 11110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 124
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, ein, und, sie, kein, ich, der, er, das, h are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word ach 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 nden, hrte, ften, ndern, ndet, gel are repeated).

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  • summary of Liebeswunder;
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