This is an analysis of the poem An Die Medisierenden Damen that begins with:

Sproßt ihr wie des Frühlings junge Triebe,
Ahmt die Wange seiner Rosen Glut,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXcXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeaXXXXeXXaXXXXXXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 11110101 111110101 11111111 10011111 101100100 11111011 1111111100 101011000 111110110 111101110 11101000 1010001 1001011 10101010 1001110 11101010 11001010 110110111 11111100 11111111 10110100 11110110 11111111 111111110 100111000 111011100 1111100100 11111011 1110110 10111101 1010100110 1100101 1110111100 1110111110 101100010 1011110 1101 1010101110 1001110 11101100 1110101 11111001 110010100 0110101010 1011011 111111110 101101101 111101 1110001 111110111 1010111 1011111110 111011110 11111010 101010001 10101111101 101110111 11111011101 11101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 378
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; und, in, ihr are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word diesem is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fte is repeated).

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