This is an analysis of the poem Toast that begins with:
an Goethe's achtzigstem Geburtstage,
an der türkischen Gränze ausgebracht....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100100 11101100 11101010 10001011 111011111 100111010 1111101010 11111101010 11111000 011010110 1110111100 110001111 1111101111 110011010 1111101100 101110101 111010101 1011100100 10111011 111010010 11111110 10110111 1011101010 10110011 1011101110 111011110 11111101 1111101100 111101000 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; er is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an, da are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nen is repeated).
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- summary of Toast;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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