This is an analysis of the poem Trostlose Thränen that begins with:
Blickt nicht so wild, weint nicht so arg,
Weil von des Sturmes rauher Hand...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXb cbcX XXXd dXbb XXbX aXXX XXXa bbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX eXeX bXXX XbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11110101 1111101 1011100 111111 111110 11111101 1111110 110111011 11111101 11101 11011111 11110101 11110101 11011111 11101101 1110111 11011110 11111110 110111 1101101 1111111 11111111 11111111 10111100 11111010 1111101 1111101 11011111 11110101 10110100 1111111000 1101111 10110100 1111111110 10111111 1101111 01111111 11111001 111111 11111111 11110101 11111100 11111110 010111 11011100 11111111 111110 11011101 10010101 10111110 11110101 011100 1010111 11010110 1110110 01110101 1101110 11111101 1111111 11010011 1110010 11111110 11111101 10110010 11110111 111110 11100010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, nicht, er, und, der are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dem, die, und are repeated.
The author used the same words und, du, die at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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