This is an analysis of the poem Begräbnis Einer Alten Bettlerin that begins with:
Vier Männer dort, in schwarzem Kleid,
Die tragen auf der Bahre,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 110111 101111 11011 111101111101 101111 1101100 010101 11111100 11110010 11111110 1111110 1111011 1100100 1110100 1111100 1111111 0101010 11110101 1111100 1101100 1101100 1111100 1101110 1101111 111111100 1111101 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; dir, die are repeated.
The author used the same word dir at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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