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

Und wieder weiter schwebten wir; den blauen
Krystall des Himmels sah ich in den Wellen...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaaXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXaXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXbXXXcXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXcXXXXX XXXXXaXXXbXXX XXXaXaXXXXXXX XbXXXXXXXXXXa XXXXXXXXXXXXX cXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXaXXXXXXXXa XXXXXXaXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXaaXXaXX XXXXbXXXXXXXX XXXXXaXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010111 10110110110 1101011101 111111110 10101011 11001110 11101 110011100 1101111010 1110111010 11011111010 01100111110 1001101100 1111111110 101101100 10111001 1100010100 1101011010 1101110101 110001 1101011110 1110111010 1101111100 1101111101 1101111100 11001100110 11011111110 01001111110 10111101000 111111111100 110001011010 11101101010 11110100 111111100 1101010101 11100111101 111011100 1101011111 1101110001 111010100 01010110 11110101010 110011101 1101111101 11010001100 111110 11111111 10101011010 01010111100 110010111 1111100100 11111111110 1111010110 110011110 11111101 0111111100 1111101110 1101011111 11011 10111100100 111111110 111111110 011111100 0111111001100 1111100111100 11011111110 1010111010 1111100110 11011101110 10010111010 11111110010 101000 10010100010 111110010 101110110 111101110 11101101000 11011111010 11110101010 1111110010 1111110010 1101101110 1101011000 1100111110 111110 1110011100 111101111100 1111101 011110100 1111111110 10111001000 101111010 10111111110 1111111101100 0101110101 0110111010 1011110010 1011010 1111101101 101101100 1011111000 11101100 101011001 0110111 100101110 11111101 11100111110 1101110100 110110100 111011100 1101000 1110101110 1111110110 111101010 111111011010 11011110100 1111110010 110111101 11011101010 111111101110 010101010 111011111 1101110110 110010 1110011010 1101111100 1101010110 1110111110 111011110 10010101010 1101111110 1111011111110 10110111110 1101101000 11110101110 1001111100 1001010 1100110000 100111110100 11010100010 11000011100 1101101110 111001111101 1101011111 110011100 1100101001 1100101110 111111111 11111111100 11100 100101110 01011101100 0111110110 11111111100 1011110010 11011001100 1111111010 1111110110 1111110010 111111111111110 11000111100 1111111010 1101000 11111101100 111101101 1111101111 11110111010 11011100100 1101110010 10111111011 0111111010 11110101100 11010111000 1111101111 11110101110 1100010 111001110 11100011010 1101101110 11011011100 11001101010 01111101110 10111101100 11011001100 11111100 11111100100 01010111000 110111000 1110000 111010110 11101101110 1001111101100 11111101110 10011111100 11011111010 11100111100 11111111101 111101110 101110111 1111101100 0101101100 1101110 1101111010 1111010101 111110111 1101110110 1101111110 1100001100 111110100 11111100100 1011111010 1110101100 1111011101 11111111100 1101100 1111111101110 1111010111 10010111111 1110101100 11110101110 11101111010 111111101 1101011100 1011011100 1111011101 110010110 111101110 1111010 01011101000 111011110 111111100110 111111101111100 11101111110 111011010 1111011100 11110100100 1111010110 011011100 1111111011 1111110010 110010 110001111 111101111111 1111101111 111110110 1100111110 110101010100 11111101010 111101010 1110110110 11001111010 111011011110 111110111110 110100 11101101110 1111110010 1111110010 111111100110 10111101010 10110101010 11110011010 1101111010 1111100100 1100111010 11111100100 110100100 110001 110111111 11101100000 11110001110 11110011110 11110111010 1101111110 1111110110 10011111010 1111111010 1100111110 111111110 11011001010 110110 111110111 1111111111100 1111111010 110011110 1111111110 1111111010 1111101100 1101110110 110101111 1111111010 110011110 111101101 100111 111011111 111001011 1101101101 111111001111 11111101011 110111001 11111111011 1111001100 111111011110 1111011000 1101011001 111101110 1011010 1111011111010 111111111110 10011110110 1111101010 1111011111 1111111111111 11110111010 1111111100 11111001100 11101101110 11011011100 111110110 1111100 1111111100 1110001010 1111110110 11011111110 1101110101 1101110101 1111100100 11111111110 1101010111100 11010110 11011100100 1001111101000 1111100 11010100100 10111111010 1111110110 0101010110 1111010101100 1110101010 1101111110 0111111110 1101011100 1001111100 01110111110 11011101000 1101000 101011100 1111110111 11011010 111110100 1101001010 11011110010 11111111100 11110111110100 1101111001 11101100010 1110111010 111111100 111100 1110011110 111011110100 1111010101000 11110110100 101111111111 1101111101 1110011101 01111001110 10111100100 11011100110 1111111011 1111101000 111100 1101011101 11010101100 1110111010 11111101111 11011011100 11011111110 111111101 101111111 11111101100 11101111 111110111 1111101100 11110 11011100110 11010011010 1111011110 11110100110 1110110111 1110111100 11101111110 1111111011 10101000110 1111110111 1101111010 11111111000 111110 110100110 01011101100 1111011100 1101110010 11010111010 10011111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 558
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • Amount of lines: 415
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; den, wir, h, der, die, um, zu, und, es, du, er, dem, wird, dich, s, ich, seinen are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, der, und, um, du, o, er, ob, ich, mit, den are repeated.

    The author used the same words und, denn 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 nzen, e, cket, ste, hren, cke are repeated).

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  • summary of Todtenkränze Ix.;
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