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

Und wieder weiter zogen wir, zur Linken
Die Rhone lassend und die weiten Strecken,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaaXXXXXb XXbXXXXXXbXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXb XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXbXbXXXXXXX XXXbXXXXXXXXX XXXbXXXXXXXXb XXXXXXXXXXXXX cXXXcXXXXXXXX X XXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11010101110 1110111010 111110111101 1110100010 1111011111100 111101111101 1111111101 111001011 11010111000 1111010010 1101101 11100110010 1111000101010 11010101010 10110111100 1111100010 1111100010 11010100110 1101110110 110011 11001111010 11111110 0100010010 111111 11100111010 11111101100 11010111100 11011111000 11001111100 1110110010 11011111010 1101100110 111110 110101101 101101110 1101010111 1111111111 11011010 1111101110 110011010 1001110001 11111101100 1101110111 110101100 111110111100 1101010 11111101 101110010 11010001100 111110110 1111011111100 111010110 111111001100 1111101101110 1101101100 11110010100 11010101100 1101101110 111010 1101111101010 1110011 11011110111 111101110111110 1101111010 1111110101100 110010100 111001111110 11100100010 1110111010 1011010 110111110 111110 1101000110 1110111010 111111010 1011111110 0111111110 1100111110 110110111101 11111001 1111001100 1101011111 110110010 11111101000 110110 110111010 10110101110 11010001010 10010111110 110111110110 111111100110 1100101111100 11111111110 1111100010 1001111110 11111111100 10010101010 1001100 111111111010 1111111111100 111100111110 110011111 1111101100 111111111110 1001101011 10100110110 111111110 1011100110 111011110 1111111110 10110 11111110010 10011111000 11110101100 11100111000 1111101001 110101011 1001001010 111001001 11110011110 110101011 1111011110 110101010 1111010 1111110010 1111101010 1111110100 111111100 1101101100 1101011100 1 10111111100 1011111100 11111111110 1110001110 10011111010 10110111100 110110 1011100111 11100110010 1101101100 110110110 1111111010 1111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 495
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 149
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; die, der, sich, sie, ihr, mir, und, zu are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, eh, o, wie, was are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ume, hlet, cket are repeated).

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