This is an analysis of the poem Das Dilemma that begins with:
Er streckt dir sein Dilemma stracks entgegen;
Ists eine Gabel, logisch mich zu spießen?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101100 110110111 111110100 1100101100 11011101010 1111100010 11011111000 1101110000 11111100010 11011101010 1111111110 1101111000100 11101100110 11110101000 11010101010 11001100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ein, die are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines en is repeated).
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- summary of Das Dilemma;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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