This is an analysis of the poem Ahasver, Der Ewige Jude that begins with:

Ein Wäldchen rauscht auf weiter grüner Heide,
Hier lebt die Erde still und arm und trübe;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXbXbXcXXcXXXdeXXXeXeXXXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXddXXXeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcaXXXXXXffXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXdXXXXXXXeXeXXXXdXXXXd XXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 150,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011 1011111111 111110010 1011110101 1111101 110100111111 1100110100 111111101101 111111110 1111110011 111111101 11110101100 101101011 101110101100 11011010 1111000110 11101011 1111101100 111111111100 10011011 1101111100110 1101111010 11110101111 1111011110 111111001 111011101 1111001110 1101101000 11010100100 11111111111 1101110111 1001111111011 111010011 1101010100 11110101110 1101111100 11110111010 1111011110 1101111000 101111010 11110101100 110010111 111111011101 1101100010 1101101111 11111100 110111101 111101111 111111101110 11111011001 1111111010 1101111000 110111100 1100010110 11101011 1111100100 1101111110 11011001 1111110111 1011010001 11111100 1111001110 11110101010 1111110101 11111111 110001110 11100011 1111111110 110110011 100111111 11010101000 01111101000 1111101000 11011010100 11111111 1111010001 1111010101 110101011 1111010101 11111111010 1010001100 11110101010 111111101 11111011 11111101111101 111101100 111111110 0110001110 111101011 1101111100 110111110 11111001 011011110 11000101000 110111001 111011010 1010101110 10110111 01011111100 11111000 1101111101010 1001100110 11101010010 111110111110110 111010011 1001010111 110111110010 1101110100 1111100010 1101110000 1110010101 111011101 10010111 1110110101 1011011110 1100110011 110110010 11010111 101110111100 1110010110 1111011000 1011110111 111111110 1101111001 111111100 111111100 1111010111 11001111 111111111101 110111101 11011111000 10011010 11111110 1111011111 1110011100 111011100 11110110 110111001 1110011101 111100111 110111001 1101011111 1111101110 111111000 11011111111 11111101110 1110110101 110011011 11111001 11010111 1101 111111110 110111011 110111001 1101110010 1101011110 1100011100 1111011001 11010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3344
  • Average number of words per stanza: 590
  • Amount of lines: 159
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, die, der, tod are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, das, der, k, den, tod are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, ttelt, t, fte, ht are repeated).

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