This is an analysis of the poem Blumengruß that begins with:

Jener Abend war entschwunden;
Doch mit jedem Morgenlichte...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 10101100 111110100 1010110 110111 1111110 10111010 1011011 111100 1111010 1000101 11001 1011100 1010110 1111100 1001000 1110111 111111010 1101111 11111 1100101 1100110 10110010 0111101 1011010 11111000 1101 11111 101101 11011110 1110110 111111 10110010 1101110 10111111 11101010 1010101 1111010 01101110 11111111010 11100110 111110110 1110011 101111101 100111 111101 1110010 1110101 111110 1101111 111111 11101110 10100010 1100110 1011100 111110110 1011111000 111011 1111110 11111101 10101000 10111000 111110 11100100 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • 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; der is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, der are repeated.

    The author used the same word und 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 stunde is repeated).

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  • summary of Blumengruß;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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