This is an analysis of the poem Schwere Wahl that begins with:
Die Frauen hab' ich aufgegeben,
's ist ein betrügliches Geschlecht;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XcXc XbXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111000 11110010 11111111010 1101111 1111111101 11111111110 11101111 111111110 1101111 111111111 1111111101 111111101 11111110 11000101 11111011110 111111 1111101 1111010 111111 0101110 11111110 11110110 11110110 1111111101 11101111010 11110101 11111100 1111111101 1111101100 1111101 110101100 1111111 11111000 1111101 11111110 1111111 111101010 1111111 11110101100 1111110110 01011110 11111111 11001010 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sie, ein are repeated.
The author used the same word ein at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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