This is an analysis of the poem Lied Eines Wahnsinnigen that begins with:
Drei Geister lassen mir keine Ruh,
Die trinken mein eigenes Blut mir zu!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXXcddXXXA ccbXXXXeccXbXA bXXXXXXXeebbccXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 1101100111 11010100 11011000 1010101101 11010110 111101101 11010101 01111111 11111001 1111111101 1011011 1111 1111 111111 11110101 01010101 11011000 110111110 1111011 1110110010 1010100101 110100101 1101111111 1111010101 11111111 1111 1111 111111 11110001 101011001 11011100 101101100 1101110 11010000 1101001 11011111 11111101 0101011 11010111 1111110001 1011011 1111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 486
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; er, der are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word der is repeated.
The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ruh at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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