This is an analysis of the poem Am Bette Eines Kindes that begins with:
Wiege sie sanft, o Schlaf, die holde Kleine.
Durch die zarte Verhüllung deines Schleiers...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111 1111011 1111111111 100 11111111010 11111001011 1110100111 1110 11111011110 1110010110 101111111011 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; die, der are repeated.
The author used the same word wiege at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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