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

So, fort in klaren Luftkrystallen schwebend
Ziehn wir, das schöne Land zu unsern Füßen;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXaXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXaXXXXXXXaXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXaXXXXXXX XaXXXXXXXXXXX XXaXaXXXXXbXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXaXXXaX XXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXaXXXaXXXX XXcXXcXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XaXXXXXXXXXXa bXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXcXXXXaaXaX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,8,5,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100010 111111101 11011111 11010110 11100101100 101110011 11111 11010101010 1101000111 1110010001 11011101010 1100111000 1110101010 101111101 11110110010 1110011000 11110111100 110111101 0101101100 111110 100110001 11111001110 1100110010 110111001 1010111010 1101011110 1110111010 10001111100 1100100010 110011001 1101101000 11010111010 1100100 1100111000 1101110100 1101101010 111110110110 1100010010 11111110010 11111010000 1101011100 10011111100 1110110100 11000111100 11010101000 1111100 1110010111 1100110011 110001011 1001010110 111111111010 11111001100 111001100 11110100010 1101101110 11110100100 0110000011 11111110 111110 100111011 1111110100 1010101010 1110011101 1111111110 111111111 1111111010 11011001010 1101111101 11110111100 111101100 110101001 11111 111111100 11111111100 11011101100 11000101100 11111101101 11111111001 10001101100 1111100110 1001110110 1111001100 11100101110 1111111100 11011100 1101110010 101011101 1111111001 10010111110 11010001010 1101100010 111101101 11110110001 101011010 101101101 111001001 111101110 1111001 1110010 111011010 111101001 11001111100 11101101010 1111100010 1001010100 1011110100 111111000 10011100010 110101110 0110101100 1100100 10110100110 111010100 1011101101 11010111100 1111001110 10111111100 01111111 1101111100 01110111010 11110010100 110100110 1101111010 1101100 11111111110 1111111101100 1010101111010 110111111 1101110110 10110011100 1110011110 11011111100 1010111100 10111111110100 1111111111 1010111111100 1101010 011111011111100 1101111010 10010100010 1100100100 011101000 1111101110 10010111100 110101111 1100011110 111110110 1111101110 1111111101010 11111 11000010010 1110111000 11010101100 11011101010 11110101100 1111111101100 11011101010 1101011001 111101111 11111111111111 0101101110 1110011101 110111 1010001100 110111010 111101011101 111111010 110111101 1101010011 110011101110 1011011100 1110101100 1011101100 1111111100 1101111100010 1101000 1110111100 1011011110 1111100111 11101011010 0111111100 0111111110 11111111100 101111110 1001101111 1111001100 1111111100 100011110110 10110 1111011010 11010111010 1101011100 111111100 1101101100 10011111010 101001110 111010100 1110011110 11110111000 1110010011 11101001010 101100 10010101100 111111100 1111111100 11111010100 10010111110 100010001 111110110 11011101 11110111100 1101101101 11111001100 1011111010 111110 11011100100 1101110110 11111100010 11010111100 111011110 1101111100 1101010110 010111111 1101111101 111111111 111001100 1101111101 11101 11111111100 1101001110 110110110 0111101110 11101001000 1101001100 10111110 111101101110 1101010011 111011110 1110010010 011110101 111101 111101011111 111001011 010110101 101110111101 01111101110 11111111100 11011111010 100101101100 1100101100 1100011010 11010101100 1110011010 111101 11001110100 111011110 111001111100 11101101000 1100101110 10110011010 111111000 111111010101 111111111010 110001011 11111101010 111101110 1110110 1010011101 1111001000 10000111100 110111011 1110011100 1101101011 1111000111 111111111 1101101010 01110110 101101110 1010111110 1101110 110111111111 1110010100 11011011 1101110010 1111111110 1111111110 110111100 1100011110 11111100100 1111010101010 11001101000 10011101110 111100 1111111100 11011100010 1101001111010 111011110 11000101100 1111110100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 542
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 311
  • 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, den, ob, er, weil, sie, du, und, so, s, fte, dich, von are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, und, des, ob, weil, du, der are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nde, nge, lle, sten, hnen, het, ften, de are repeated).

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