This is an analysis of the poem Das Ideal that begins with:
Tief in des Waldes heiligen Schatten saß
Ich, und der Stimme, welche zu edleren...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XabX ccXX aXXX XXbX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110100101 111111100 100111000 111111101 1110111100 1111101101 110111111 101101001 11110101100 11111111101 110111100 0110110 111111001 111011100 1111110 111100100 100011111 1101011111 11101101 11010110 1111111101 1111101111 1101111 101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; mich is repeated.
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