This is an analysis of the poem Todtenkränze I. that begins with:
Mich hatte Waldesdunkel eingeschlossen,
Und in Betrachtung lag ich tief versunken,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXaXaXX XXXXXXXXXXXaX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXaXaXXXX XXaXXXXXXaXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXaXXXXX XXXXaXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001000 10100111100 1101011100 11111111010 111111110 11011101100 111101010 10011101100 11111011110 1101111101010 10110111010 1111111100100 1111011111110 1111011110 1111110100 111111010110 1111011100 1101010110 1101010110 110110 1010001101 1101101100 11110101000 11111111011 1011110010 11011001100 1101111010 111011010 11101101 11000101110 111111110 11011111101 110101 111110110 110111000 11011101110 0111111110 111111110 111111011100 11111111111 0111101100 1100101010 1111111100 1110110010 11001101100 1011110 1001111111100 11111001010 1110111010 10001101010 1110100110 10111110 11111101010 110010110 1001111110 1001110101 01010111110 11111111110 111111110 111111111100 11100111100 11111110110 1101110010 1111111101010 110110111101 1111111100 11010111100 11001101110 1111101100 1111101100 11010101000 1111100 11001111100 11111011110010 111111110 11001111100 1111111110 1001111101 1001010101 1111011010 11011100010 1101011110 11011111101 11110101110 1111100 1111111010 11101101000 1111011111110 10111110110 11111111100 110111111110 1101011110 11110101100 011111110001 11011011110 1001101010 111111010110 11110100 1100110010 1111011111 0101011111110 111110111100 1111101100 11010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 550
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 105
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, und, h, sie, mag, das, s, ich are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, und, mag, l are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines het, ndet are repeated).
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