This is an analysis of the poem Abschied that begins with:
Sei mir zum letztenmal gegrüßt,
Mein Vaterland, das, feige dumm,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa abab XXXX XXXb cXXX cXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 1100111 1111001 11011001 11110101 0111011 1111101 1111111 1101111 11011100 101110 1110110 11001101 1110110 111100 11110101 11110111 111101 10111011 11111111 0101011 1101001 11110010 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
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- summary of Abschied;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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