This is an analysis of the poem Todtenkränze Iii. that begins with:

Und wieder fühlt′ ich schirmend mich umwallen
Des Geists Gewand, mit dem er mich umwunden,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaXXXXX bXXXXXXXXXXXX aaXXXXXXcXXXX XXXcdXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX aaXXXXXXXXXcX XXXXXXXXXXXXX abXXXXXXXXXXX XXXaXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX aXXXXXXXXXdXX XXXXXXXXXXXXa XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX X XXXXXXXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,1,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101100 1110111101100 11111101010 1111111100 11111110 11011101100 1100100 1111011110 1100011110 11011110 1101110110 11111001000 10110101100 1111111 110111101110 1111001111010 11111111000 11110111001 1000101110 11010110 1101110 1101111100 1101111010 110011110 111110111 111011111100 1101011011 11011010110 11000011100 11000101110 1111010100 1011011110 1100100 1101011100 11111111110 11010111010 1111111000 11000111000 11100101100 1100111100 11010111110 1110110 1001011011010 1100110101 11111011 111111 11100001110 11111111 01011111111 1101010 11001011010 1101011000 11011111110 1111110110 11011011100 110110110 11101111100 11101011100 1101100 111101001 1101111000 111111111010 1111001011 1011001100 01011111 1001101110 110011010 11000111000 111110110 10000111110 1111100110 1110110 10010001000 1111101110 1111101111100 110101010110 11110111110 101111101 1111011111 1001110010 01111101100 111111101 1010011111 1101111100 1101100 1101110010 1110110110 110111110 1101111010 100101010100 1111110110 11110101110 111110111 1111011110 101111011 11010100100 11010110010 0111100 11110111000 1111111111 111111111101 11111000 110111110 111111111111110 011101111 1100111100 111111010110 1101111110 011101001 111110100 0101010 11001111110 11111111 1011011111 11111111100 11110101100 101111010 1111110101 10011010 111111111100 10110111 111101101 1111011100 1111100 11111101111 1111111110 11010000100 111111100101 11011011 1111101011 1101111111 1011011000 1111011011 1101111000 110101110 1110011100 110101 11111110 101111111100 11010111010 110101111101 01011101100 11111110010 1111111100 11110111000 1110111110 1111111110 110100001 11111101100 111110 1111111100 1111001100 1111100100100 110010110 1111010111 111110001 11110101100 0111101111110 1111111 1110111010 111001000 1001110100 111101 110101010 1011011111 111101111 11111111 10111101010 1111111111110 11110111110 1101101010 111001111 111101110 11011101100 111001100 101100 11010111010 1101110110 11011101100 11011001100 1111100100 1101110010 1 11011111010 11111111110 111111111111 11111101100 1111110010 110101111100 111001 111111101000 111101110100 1111011100100 11111100100 1111111010 11010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 203
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mich, und, bald, sich, zu, den, der, von, ihn, die, mit are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, auf, von, zeit, vier, mit 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gel is repeated).

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