This is an analysis of the poem Auf Eine Holländische Landschaft that begins with:

Müde schleichen hier die Bäche,
Nicht ein Lüftchen hörst du wallen,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011 1111010 110110 111110 1111010 1010111 111111 1111110 11101100 111111 1111100 11111010000 1010110 11111010 11010010 11101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; die is repeated.

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

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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