This is an analysis of the poem An Einen Jugendfreund that begins with:
Des Lebens holder Zauber ging vorüber.
Ich klage, daß die Jugend mir verloren;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXaa XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010110 1111101100 110111111 1111011100 111111111 100101101 01011001000 10111101100 10110011010 110111111101 11001111010 11111000100 1011010101 1111101000 11011111101 11001110010 1111001110 1100101000 1111011100 10100101000 1101111000 1100011100 01111001110 1101010100 1110100 101011110 110001110 11111111 11101111101 111101 101011111 1011010110 11111101 11010111 11111111100 1101111000 11110101 1111111101 1101010100 111110110 1111110101 1110011101 1111011100 111111101 11111110111 11011001 1110011100 11001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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, mir, und are repeated.
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