This is an analysis of the poem An Die Ersehnte that begins with:
Umsonst! du bist auf immer mir verloren!
Laut rufend in den dunkeln Wald des Lebens,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101100 11001101110 1111101100 11101100100 11111011010 1111011001 111111110 111111100101 110111110100 1111100100 111100110100 1101111000 110001111101 1101100010 11111111100 111101010000 111011100 110111111100 111111001010 1101101100 11111111 11011111100 111011100 1010011110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; die is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dann is repeated.
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