This is an analysis of the poem An Die Alpen that begins with:
Alpen! Alpen! unvergeßlich seid
Meinem Herzen ihr in allen Tagen;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXX XXaX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXcX dXdX XXXX bebe aXXX XXXX cXXX XXAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010001 1010101010 101111101 1111110000 11111100 1010101000 11110111 111011110 11110100 111010010 110110101 111100111 101010101 110110001 11111110100 111110111 100011101 0111000100 110011101 101011100 1111011 1110101100 101111110 111111100 11111101 1110011100 101110111 1011111100 101110101 1101101010 1011111011 1111101100 10111111 1111110010 1011100 1110100100 10111111 1011101110 101011 100010110 11110001 101110110 11101111 101110100 1111100 110111 11111011 111010100 11001111 10110111110 11101010 1110111000 101110111 111111100 101010001 1010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; hat is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word schmerz is repeated.
The author used the same word heimweh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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