This is an analysis of the poem Das Blockhaus that begins with:
Müdgeritten auf langer Tagesreise
Durch die hohen Wälder der Republik,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXXXXXXbbXXXXXXXXXXXbbXXXXXXcXXXaabXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXdXXXXXXXdXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 75,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110100 111011100 111010110 110111101 11001111001 1010111101 1010101101 10111111111 1011010101 1011110010 11111010011 1011111101 1011111100 11111111110 1111111110 10101111010 101111100 111001101 111110101101 111011101 10111111010 1111101100 1101101000 110111011 11110111 10100101000 1110111010 11100010110 10101111010 1011010111 111000100110 1011110100 1010111101 111110111110 11111101 1110100001 1111000101 11110110100 111011101 1111111100110 10111111010 111110111 1110101110 10111111111 1011110111100 1111101110 10111111111011 111111011 110111101 111111100 10111100 10101101100 111101011 11101111001 111111011010 111011000 110111100 11100010000 1011111010 1011011011 1101101000 0110100001 111001011 1110111110 111111100 111011101 111011100 1110111001 111111100 1110110001 10110100100 111011000 1011111111010 1000101110 111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3221
- Average number of words per stanza: 548
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, ich are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word der is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nger is repeated).
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