This is an analysis of the poem Wintergrün that begins with:
Greif' ich in die Saiten wieder,
Die ich lang nicht schlug,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX Xbcb cXXd XeXe XXXc XXXX XXXX XdXd XfXf XXXX XXXX XXXc XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 11111 11011110 11101 11110000 10001 1111101010 10111 1011010 1110 110011 1111001 11111100 11101 11100100 11001 1110100 10110 1101111 1101 111111 01111 110001 11001 1101010 11111 1011110 10110 11111010 1101 11111100 10101 1111100 1111100 11100110 10101 111111 11110 1110111 1111 111111 111 111111 1111 1011110 10110 01101000 10101 1110101 11111 1111111 1111 11011110 111 1111100 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
The author used the same word und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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