This is an analysis of the poem Wacher Traum that begins with:
Ich trat in's Zimmer, der letzte
Von allen Gästen, herein,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 110101 111111 1101100 111010 1101101 111111011 11111 110111110 1111010 111011111 111111010 1101111 111100 11110100 11111110 11110110 11010111 011100 110111 11100110 1101110 11100111 1101101 1111010 1101001 11111 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, ein are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, ich are repeated.
The author used the same word ich at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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