This is an analysis of the poem An Meine Gitarre that begins with:
Gitarre, wie du hängst so traurig!
Die Saiten tönen nimmermehr,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX aXaX Xcac XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 10101110 1101100 111001010 1100110 11101100 1111100 101101000 11111 1111110 10001100 1101100 11110101 101111100 1110111 10110010 1111101 10111101010 1101111 11111000 1101011 111101100 11111101 110101010 11010010 1111111 1111101 1110111 111100 111101010 11111100 110110010 10101101 101111110 11011101 11111110 1101101 111111 1111111 1101111 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; du, der are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, mir, dort are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of An Meine Gitarre;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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