This is an analysis of the poem Beethovens Büste that begins with:
Traurig kehrt ich eines Abends
In mein einsam düstres Zimmer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXb XXXX XXXX cXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 0110110 1001100 1111000 111110111 11111100 111011 1111110 1111111 1111101 1110100 1110001 11000110 11110 1111100 1110010 1110111 11101110 11101110 111110 111110 1101100 1110100 11001010 1111101010 111011 1110010 101101 111111110 100011 11011010 11100 10101010 1110110 11011000 1111101010 1110100 10101010 111000 10110000 11101100 1001011 101011 1010110 10111000 11101000 10100110 10110000 11101000 111110 10111010 1101000 110010 1110110 111101 11001100 1111110 1110 111010 11000100 10100110 11001 10101010 1110101 1110101 1110100 101011110 1110111 0110010 1001000 11111011 10111 111111 10111 1111101110 011010
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, wenn are repeated.
The author used the same word wenn at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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