This is an analysis of the poem Sicherer Trost that begins with:
Traurig hängst Du das Köpfchen,
Weil muß geschieden seyn:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 111001 100101 111101 11111100 111110 1111111100 111010 111110100 1111101 11011100 1111001 111100110 111111 11011110 11111 1101111 11111011 111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; dich is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, und are repeated.
The author used the same word und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sicherer Trost;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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