This is an analysis of the poem Auf Meinen Ausgebälgten Geier that begins with:
Du stehst so still und ernst, mein ausgebälgter Geier,
Ich bringe dir ein Lied mit meiner ernsten Leier....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX XX XX XX XX XX aa XX XX Xa XX Xb XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX bX XX XX Xb XX XXXX Xb XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111110010 11111111101010 1101101111100 1101101101010 1111111111110 111110111100 11110011011 111111111110 11111010100 10111110011 11111011110110 11010111100 101001110100 11111101110101 101111001110 111111011111010 110111111100 1110011111101 1111011101110 1111111100100 110011110101 11111100111111010 1110000110110 1111010111111 11010111111 1111111111 1010111111110 11101011110 1111111101010 11111101100 110101110001 111011101000 111011101100 011111110100 11111110111 110101110000 1111011100110 101011100110 111100111101 1111010101 1111011111100 1100011011000 11100111101 10011111001 110111111110 1111111100 1101111101010 1111011101000 110101111000 11110100100 11110101101 1111100111011110 1101111011100 111111110110 1111111011 11111110101 1111111110101 0111111011 1101011101110 110110111101 111111101000 110101111010 111101111110 10101110000 101111111100 11101010101010 1111111100100 110010111000 11111111111010 1101111000000
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der, ich, wo, ein, die, ist are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, wenn, als are repeated.
The author used the same words ich, wie at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ften, ckest, ren, umte, ngen, nden are repeated).
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