This is an analysis of the poem Thränengrund that begins with:
Sangst Du immer nur von Thränen
Und von unbeglücktem Herzen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXb 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,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1110010 11111010 10101110 10111100 11011100 111111 1011100 10111010 111100 11111100 1111101 111011 1011101 1011111 111011 1111100 11101000 10110010 11001100 11101000 100110 11111010 1110110 10111100 1111100 111111100 10001100 1010111 1011110 11101100 11111 111011 11100100 111110100 1111100 10111100 0110110 11101000 10111100 1111100 1111110 0111110 1110110 10011100 11101100 1111111 1010110 1110100 1110101 11101110 10111111 11101010 1111110 1010111 10101110 1111100 10101100 1101110 11111100 11100110 1110111 1010111110 101111 1111110 1111111100 111111 1111111100 11111110 111111110 11101010 11100010 1111101 11111100 11111010 11110010 1111111 11101010 11101110 11101000 11111100 11111110 11111100 11101110 101011 101111 1011101 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 88
- 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; der, so, ich are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word warum is 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 Thränengrund;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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