This is an analysis of the poem Wanderlied that begins with:
O, WEST of all the westward roads that woo ye to their winding,
O, south of all the southward ways that call ye to the sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede fdfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011110110 11010101111001 1010101011111010 0010101011111 110101010101010 1010101011011001 0011101010111110 111101110111 111101011111110 11110101111101 0110101111111010 111111111111 1111011001010010 11111101110001 110111010101010 011111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, ye, o, i'd, and, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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